Point is taken.....
I am currently going through the install again making sure I exactly
understand everything that is done. (This may take some time!)
I am hopefull that it will mysteriously work after that. If it doesn't I
will hit you with the gory details and see what you think.
Thanks again.
PS It took me about 10 minutes to get sendmail/pop3/smtp working.... and
then I started reading about setting up virtual users... ok, I see!!
At 07:35 01/11/00 -0800, you wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:24:51PM -0800, Howard Miller wrote:
> > Sorry, sorry, sorry.....
> >
> > I am not really a newbie as such, but I am to MTAs. I can usually get
>
>In which case you will have understood why an earlier poster asked that
>you send the logs so we can see what's happening. In spite of that and
>you "not really (being) a newbie", you still haven't supplied them.
>
>Without logs we can offer no opinion at all.
>
> > 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).
>
>In which case, please send your observations to the author of that document,
>he wants to hear feedback that improves his work.
>
> > 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).
>
>Your requirements are absolutely normal and many thousands of people
>have installed qmail without a glitch in such environments. The experience
>of this list is that most people who come to it saying "it doesn't work",
>usually end up finding they have not follow instructions to the letter. And,
>be warned - if you claim that you have you'll need to support that claim
>with proof.
>
> > 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
>
>Whatever floats your boat. You're the one who lives with your choice,
>not us. But if you want to persist with qmail, then you will need to
>give details. Like logs files, config settings, what is and isn't working,
>that sort of thing.
>
>
>Regards.
