On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Judah McAuley wrote:
[...]
> So I decided that the easy way didn't work, let's try the more complex
> way. I uninstalled all the daemontools, functions, qmail-run, qmail,
> etc. rpms and went in search of different directions. Searching through
> the list archive brought me to the Mail Server Mini-Howto at
> http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/qmail/index.html
You might want to take a look at Life With Qmail which can be found
here: http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html It's got complete info
on just about every question you have.
[...]
> I've got mail being delivered (I think) to a single file in each user
> directory. I'm not using any of the normal rc scripts found in the
> /var/qmail/boot directory. I'm using a modified version of UW's IMAPd.
> I now wonder what I should do to my setup so that I can reasonably meet
> my mail-server goals which are:
>
> 1) Allow POP3, and APOP access in an efficient way
Since you're using mbox format, qpopper's probably your best bet. There's
a patch on www.qmail.org for home dir mailboxes, and in ver3.0 (currently
in beta) it will be part of the distribution.
> 2) Allow users to use Pine and Procmail together
See the qmail FAQ, both of these items are covered in detail.
> 3) Let users set up mailing-lists
> 4) In the future, add web-based mail support
Take a look at TWIG. It's a complete Personal Information Manager in PHP
and was a snap to install. http://screwdriver.net/twig/
> 5) In the future, IMAP support
>
> It seems to me (looking at the docs) that issues such as delivery to
> /var/spool/mail, $HOME, or ~/Maildir/ may be able to be set up on a
> per-user basis. Is this true? And how would I migrate my setup to one
> that supports Maildir?
>
> Is Dot-Forward/Procmail support best provided by moving to Maildir
> format?
Doesn't matter. Both take place beforehand.
>
> Any opinions on the easiest/best POP3/IMAPd to integrate with qmail?
see above.
> There just seems to be so many ways of doing things that it's easy to
> get lost. Do I uninstall everything and start over, compiling by hand?
> Do I attempt to modify my current setup? Tough calls.
Start with Life With Qmail. You'll quickly find that it's not as tough
as you're thinking it might be.
Vince.
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