Hello. I just setup a server for my father and I installed qmail because
I use it here and it works great. His situation is a little different
from my own, however. POP3 works great starting from inetd, but qmail
gives errors. The error I get is:
tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for geceventures.com
I'm starting qmail-smtpd with:
#!/bin/sh
QMAILUID=`id -u qmaild`
NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcprules.d/smtpd.cdb \
-u $QMAILUID -g $NOFILESGID geceventures.com 25 \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1
I installed it via tarball on Mandrake 7. Again, we're behind a firewall,
so I think that has something to do with it (otherwise it's nearly
identical to my own working setup).
The IP address that the server is on is 10.1.1.2, and the IP address for
the firewall is 10.1.1.1 locally and something else for the outside
internet (I forget off-hand). I use ipmasqadm to forward ports 25 and 110
to 10.1.1.2.
Orginially the "25" was "smtp", but I hard-coded everything hoping it
might work that way, but no dice.
Any idea why this isn't working and possibly some tips on how to get it to
work? I'm not sure how qmail operates in this sort of situation knowing
it's stringent environment checking on DNS, MX records, and so
forth. We'd really like to get this up and running, but my father is very
new to Linux so I'm administering it for him until he learns enough to do
it himself. Any help would be appreciated.
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