Hello all!
I really want to thank Dave Sill for writing "Life with qmail." I realized
that if you follow the directions EXACTLY, good things are bound to happen.
After 2 previous failed attempts in installing qmail, I completely removed
everything qmailish from my system. Sendmail was also pulled out by the
roots. I carefully went step-by-step and when I was finished I only had to
chown and chgrp some files that were left over from the previous attempts.
This is the output of a ps right after the install.
qmaild /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 878 -g 602 0
smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail
qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd
qmailq qmail-clean
qmailr qmail-rspawn
qmails qmail-send
root supervise qmail-send
root supervise qmail-smtpd
root qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/
/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run looks like this
#!/bin/sh
QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild`
NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \
-u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1
This is where my problem begins. I cannot access port 25 on my mail server.
I am accessing the machine from my home this weekend. When I 'telnet
mailmachine2.companyname.com 25' I get 'Connect Failed - Could not open a
connection....'. Inetd is not maintaining my POP3 and SMTP anymore,
tcpserver is. There is NO mention of either POP or SMTP in the inet.conf
file. This is where I usually get stumped. I will gladly post any output you
request. :)
2- This is not a problem, I would just like to make sure I did this
properly. I added this line to my /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail startup file. My
users will be checking their mail through Outlook Express and I want to use
pop3d / checkpassword to do this.
tcpserver -v -R 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup
mailmachine2.companyname.com
/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1 | \
/var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d &
this is the output of ps after I added the above line
qmaild /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 878 -g 602 0
smtp
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd
qmailq qmail-clean
qmailr qmail-rspawn
qmails qmail-send
root tcpserver -v -R 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup
mailmachine2.companyname.com /bin/checkpassword
root /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d
root supervise qmail-send
root supervise qmail-smtpd
root qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/
Once again, thanks for any help you can give me,
tony.campisi
