Dear People,
I had been asked to setup alternate mail servers and test for the
reliability of different MTA's. This exercise will led us to have a better
understanding of mail server software and choose a final MTA to use as
default. We are trying to eliminate Sendmail from our campus network.
The MTA that we are comparing are the following:
courier-mta
sendmail
qmail
postfix
exim
I was choose to work with qmail and my experience is with sendmail.
No to the point of this message.
I already installed qmail on a small Ultra-5 Sparc box running Solaris 8
(01/01). I was required to configure qmail to put mail messages in the
standard sendmail mbox format on /var/mail (or /var/spool/mail) and to
give support to .forward and /etc/aliases. So for this reason I also
installed the fastforward and dot-forward packages.
My qmail server is already running and configured, to some extent. I run
qmail using tcpserver and daemontools.
I can send email locally and remotely without any problem. My only problem
is recieving messages. If I try to connect with telnet to port 25 it barfs
with a "Connection closed by foreign host." message and if a send a
message from another system never arrives.
The remote MTA report's the following when trying to send a message to my
qmail server:
(connect to devnull.ece.uprm.edu[136.145.57.11]: server dropped
connection)
Any ideas?
"To learn is a natural pleasure"
- Aristotle
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Kennie J. Cruz Gutierrez, Student
Department of Mathematics, U of Puerto Rico [Mayaguez Campus]
Work Phone: (787) 832-4040 x 3798
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://ece.uprm.edu/~kennie
