On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 09:19:19AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have installed qmail for the first time and the install has gone
> extremely smooth until now. I have run into two problems that I can't
> seem to solve and have not been able to find solutions on the list.
>
> My network currently consists of RedHat Linux 6.2 running a P90 server
> with 64 MB of RAM. This server does not currently have any access to
> the Internet since it is being setup for testing purposes only.
> /etc/resolv.conf is empty and there is no default gateway set.
So at this point in your testing you have no DNS. Qmail (tcpserver,
really) doesn't read /etc/hosts. You need to use 2 switches on the
tcpserver line to handle this: -H and -l (ell, not one).
The -H switch is necessary to prevent tcpserver from trying to look up
the /sender's/ hostname. The -l is used to set the local host name; that
is, the name of the host that tcpserver is running on, since tcpserver
can't look that up, either.
Finally, a third switch, -R, is used to prevent tcpserver from trying to
retrieve "ident" information (this is the TCPREMOTEINFO mentioned in
various parts of qmail / ucspi-tcp documentation).
Use -H, -R and -l on the tcpserver command-line for qmail-smtpd.
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -H -lmyhost.nea.org ...
> The first problem I am having is that I cannot telnet to port 25 on
> the server. I will receive the message Connected to 127.0.0.1 Escape
> Character is ^]. Then, I do not receive any more messages and end up
> killing the process.
If you receive the "Escape Character..." message, then you *have*
successfully telnetted to port 25. At that point tcpserver is attempting
to look up, as mentioned above, various things in DNS. The timeouts are
fairly long, so it looks as if nothing's happening.
[snip...]
> The second problem I have run into is with the pop3 protocol. Again,
> I was able to complete the test locally as outlined in Life with
> qmail. In this case, I am able to telnet to port 110 on the server
> without any problems, but e-mail clients such as Star Office, Outlook,
> Outlook Express, and Eudora will not connect. Eudora, prompts for my
> password and then returns an error message stating "Connection Timed
> Out (10060).
Again, tcpserver is trying to do DNS lookups. Use the same three
switches on the tcpserver line that runs qmail-popup.
[snip...]
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jay
HTH
Tim
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Timothy Legant
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