Sorry, sorry, sorry.....
I am not really a newbie as such, but I am to MTAs. I can usually get
things going but I have been at this for nearly two weeks and I simply
can't get it to work. It is at best confusing that the INSTALL
documentation in the tarball suggests a different installation from the
Howto, and is different again from "Living with qmail" (which DOES have
some mistakes that even I spotted).
I have by now tried all of them, reloading Linux on my test machine each
time. In each case something doesn't work and I am frustrated that
documentation seems (to me anyway) to be lacking. I don't think that my
requirements are in anyway strange (I need an ISP style setup - all local
lan users though - with smtp and pop3).
I am using SuSE V7 linux, if anybody out there has got a simillar
arangement on a similar platform to work correctly I would be most
interested to hear from them how they did it.
Sorry to everybody again, for getting stroppy - you know what its like when
you foolishly promise something in a few days...... oh well.
Might I be better just using sendmail, which is built in to SuSE and seems
to work out of the box. There does not seem to be a POP3 as standard but
there may be something on the disks (I haven't looked yet). Its just that
everything I have read claims that qmail is MUCH better. If only I could
get it to work.
Howard
At 09:05 01/11/00 -0500, you wrote:
> > if qmail is no good can anybody recommend something that actually
> > works properly.
>
>That attitude will get you a long way on this list.
>
>qmail works properly. If you follow the completely straightforward
>installation documents that come with the tarball, or follow Dave Sill's
>excellent "Life with qmail," you too can have a working qmail installation,
>just like thousands of others have before you. If your attitude is that any
>failure on your part to understand qmail right off the bat is a shortcoming
>of qmail, rather than a shortcoming of Howard Miller, then you might as well
>look elsewhere for an MTA.
>
>You may want to look at http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html#trigger . If
>that's not your problem, you might consider looking at the log files, which
>hold the answers to many of these mysteries.
>
>Chris
