On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Peter Samuel wrote:

> > 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
> 
> Does "geveventures.com" resolve to an IP address?

Yes.

> Change "geceventures.com" to the IP address of the interfce you wish
> to bind to, or make it 0 if you would like to bind to all available
> interfaces.

Ok, changed it to 0 and I get this in the logfile:

tcpserver: fatal: no IP address for 504

Changed it to 10.1.1.2 (which is it's IP address) and I get:

tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for 10.1.1.2

I kept the SMTP port field to 25 (as above).

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