On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Mark Maggelet wrote:
> Hi there
> I'm installing qmail on a RedHat 6.1 server install machine and I just
> have a couple of quick questions and then I'll lurk for awhile.
>
> 1) REMOVE.sendmail says this:
> Find sendmail in your boot scripts. It's usually in either /etc/rc or
> /etc/init.d/sendmail. It looks like
> sendmail -bd -q15m
> -q15m means that it should run the queue every 15 minutes; you may
> see a different number. Comment out this line.
this is the location of sendmail in slackware, not redhat
>
> there's no such line, but theres a script called /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail
> that I removed. Is that the right thing to do?
just run ntsysv and disable sendmail, then kill sendmail procedure.
>
> 2) the install file says this:
> Set up qmail-smtpd in /etc/inetd.conf (all on one line):
> smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env
> tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
>
> but it's on 2 lines, does it mean one line, or two lines? because
> if it were 1 line, there would be 8 fields and the other lines in there
> have 7. I feel pretty dumb for having to ask that one.
it's on ONE line. the field after "/var/qmail/bin/tcp-env" is just
arguments of tcp-env
>
> 3) how do I configure /bin/mail to use qmail? the doc just says do it
> but doesn't say how.
you can add symbolic links in /var/spool/mail, which point to
$HOME/Mailbox, or just run "mail -f ./Mailbox"
>
> many thanks,
> - Mark
>
> ***********************************************
>
> On 12/10/99 at 7:07 AM Mark E. Drummond wrote:
>
> >Peter Cavender wrote:
> >>
> >> Go away and take your alarmist spam with you. I hope your
> >> quarantined viruses get loose on your NT server.
> >
> >Actually, if I remember right these guys are the ones who implemented an
> >email anti-virus system using a modified version of Qmail running on
> >UNIX boxen.
> >
> >--
> >___________________________________________________
> >Mark Drummond|ICQ#19153754|mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Gang Warily|http://signals.rmc.ca/
>
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