Mitch,
I am very confused by your questions? Truthfully None of it really make
any sense. See comments below
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitch Pirtle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 8:32 AM
Subject: smtp is on vacation
> Hi folks,
>
> Pardon the simplicity on this one, but there's lots of references to smtp
and
> inet (in the docs) without any explanation, or hints on how to
troubleshoot...
SMTP is a TCP protocol Stands for simple messages transfer protocol.
inet (I think you are referring INETD) inetd is a TCP wrapper.. What of this
don't you understand I would be happy to explain it to you.
>
> Basically, all local deliveries are fine using qmail-inject. When I try
to
> do anyhting that uses smtp, I get "Connection refused". To add insult to
> injury, I cannot determine where or if qmail is actually logging any
events,
> and cannot tell if the server(s) are running correctly.
>
> I've tried the check utilities (run without a response, ASSUMING
everything
> went ok); I have tried the different TEST.* docs, and am fine until I get
to
> the dreaded "telnet localhost 25" step which fails.
>
> I've installed tcpserver and everything looks ok there as well - but it
> appears that smtp just doesn't fire up. Here is the current line in
> inetd.conf:
>
> tcpserver -u 508 -g 507 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd &
>
> Before using tcpserver, it was:
>
> smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env \
> /var/qmail/bin/qmailsmtpd
>
First of all tcpserver and inetd are basicly the same thing.. You use one
or the other.. If you are using inetd. then your inetd.conf would look like
smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
> ps reports all qmaild-* processes running , and AFAIK everything was setup
> ok. Does anyone know where I can start to find out what's busted? I
really
> would like to use qmail - I've heard/read so much about it - but getting
it
> to go appears more difficult than the others.
qmail is actually very easy to install if you follow Dave Sills Life With
Qmail http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html.
>
> Also, there's very little available reference on the configuration of
qmail
> (other than the main site and a few docs with the distribution). Where
are
> other good places to get info?
Very little?? There is a Great deal of information that can be found on
www.qmail.org.. Look alittle harder..
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
>
> mitchy
