Thanks a lot Jakes…

 

It was stupid of me not to lookup the wiki!

 

Supriyo


From: Jake Vickers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 5:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] contents of /var/qmail

 

Supriyo Banerjee wrote:

Hi there!

 

I need to understand the various features offered by the contents of the ‘/var/qmail’ directory so as to maintain my Qmail Toaster setup properly.

 

1) The ‘/var/qmail/alias’ directory has three files all of which contain the postmaster’s e-mail address. However, the domain portion of the e-mail address is ‘ac.in’ while my domain name is ‘rsduniv.ac.in’.

 

Should I rectify the address as '&[EMAIL PROTECTED]'?

 

2) Also, in /var/qmail/control', the files - 'defaultdomain', 'defaulthost', 'plusdomain' mentions the domain name as 'ac.in'. I feel that it should be 'rsduniv.ac.in' in the 'defaultdomain' and 'plusdomain' files while the 'defaulthost' file should contain the FQDN of my mail server. Isn't it?

 

3) Kindly explain the functions of the following files contained in the /var/qmail/control' directory:

            Badloadertypes, badmailfrom, badmailto, concurrencyincoming, concurrencyremote, databytes, logcount

 

4) I would like configure the two e-mail servers at both the campuses in such a fashion so that besides accepting the mails for their own sub-domains, they should also become the caching mail servers for each other, so that in case one server is down, the mails for that server should get cached on the other and vice versa. How to do that?

I just got back yesterday, and I see that no one else answered this one, but I'm only going to brush it briefly.
Go to the wiki (http://wiki.qmailtoaster.com) and you'll see that there is a section that defines what the control files are and do. If you click on the link to follow the rcpthosts file, it will explain about setting up a caching email server.
If you upgrade, you'll also need to convert from the old .qmail aliases to the new mysql format aliases, as a FYI.


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