* X Equis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have no previous experience with configuring Qmail (nor Sendmail, or
> any other MTA). I just made an fresh install of OpenBSD 2.7, and
> installed Qmail 1.03 from the ports collection.
> My questions are:
> - since I haven't configured sendmail at all, is there any need
> to deinstall sendmail straight away?
Ample. First of all you don't want 2 MTAs. De-Installation instructions
are at /var/qmail/doc/REMOVE.sendmail; also remove it from rc.conf as
described there.
> - could anyone walk me through the very basic steps for configuring
> qmail with the following?
http://qmail.org/
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html
> * dial-on-demand connection
serialmail: /usr/ports/mail/serialmail
> * fetchmail as the POP3 retrieval agent
man fetchmail
> * procmail as the MDA
echo "mda /usr/bin/procmail" >> .fetchmailrc
> * mbox/maildir style mailboxes with mutt
mutt -f ~/Maildir/, but the package comes with a lot of stuff missing[1],
so I'd recompile from the ports.
> * while I will usually connect to one isp, I'd like to send and receive
> mail from other accounts on other isps (while connected only to one
> isp)
Fetchmail will pick it up, then decide for one "smarthost". Done.
[...]
12 line sig - cool. I need to get one of those too...
Footnotes:
[1] System: OpenBSD 2.7 [using ncurses 5.0]
Compile options:
-DOMAIN -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK -USE_IMAP
-USE_POP +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS
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find pine4.21 -type f | xargs egrep '(sprintf|strcpy|strcat)' | wc -l
4299
