[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>The first problem arises when I have to tell qmail my FQDN. I
>connect to the Internet through my ISP, which assigns me a
>different dynamic IP address every time. My hostname is precious,
>so what should my FQDN be?
Just make something up. I use hostname.lastname, which would be
precious.galletti.
>I played aroung with different FQDN values and found that
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] seems to work.
That's an e-mail address, not an FQDN.
>But when I try to
>send an email locally, I get different error messages saying
>something about one of qmail's daemons not being able to chdir to
>the mail directory.
We'll need to see the exact error message to provide detailed help.
>I've created mailboxes for root
See:
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#root-delivery
>and my username
>with the utility included with qmail. Do I have to change the
>directory permissions?
No.
>I've read all the qmail docs I could find, and so far they seem to be
>oriented to big systems.
"Life with qmail" is *not* oriented to big systems. It's *suitable*
for big systems, but I also use the LWQ installation on my 60 MHz
Pentium mailhub at home.
>Should I use qmail?
Only you can answer that question. *Can* you use qmail? Yes. Can qmail
do a good job? Yes. Would I recommend it over sendmail? Yes. Should
everyone use it? No.
>My laptop is not connected to a network, and it only has one user.
If it's never connected to a network, there's not much need for an
MTA...but, of course, qmail can run on a standalone box.
>Has anyone
>successfully configured qmail for this particular kind of system?
The closest I've come to that is a two-system Y2K testbed we set
up. It had no nameserver, and both systems delivered everything
locally.
-Dave
