On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Peter Gordon wrote: Hi Peter,
It's usually better to send mails to the mailinglist. I am cc'ing it now for the benefits of the archive. > I have just discovered qpsmtpd and would like to install it but there > are a few things that are not clear to me. > > My services directory looks like this: > > ls -l > total 0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 May 17 2001 qmail-send -> > /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 May 17 2001 qmail-smtpd -> > /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 May 17 2001 run -> > /var/qmail/supervise/run > > You say in the README that I just need to link /home/smtpd/qpsmtpd into > this directory. Yes. > 1 What name should the link have? Any name will do. > 2. Should the existing qmail-smtpd link in this directory be deleted? Yes, good point. You should stop it first with svc -d /services/qmail-smtpd/ > 3. Should the executable /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd be moved or replaced? It doesn't matter; leave it so you easily can switch back if needed. > 4. I have a modified qmail-smtpd with deals with badrcptto. Will this > still work? Yes, if you use v0.11 and enable the "check_badrcptto" plugin. > 5. Are there any requirements for for SpamAssassin by qpsmtpd? Will > release 2.41 work? Yes; 2.40 or higher is recommended. Older versions will work with a simple change to the spamassassin plugin. (In 2.40 they accepted a patch I made that makes it possibly to get the "standard reports" via the spamd interface). > From these questions it is clear that I don't understand what the data > flow is regarding qpsmtpd. Could you give me a brief outline. qpsmtpd really just replaces the functionality of qmail-smtpd: http://www.nrg4u.com/qmail/the-big-qmail-picture-103-p1.gif qmail-smtpd is (intentionally) very limited in functionality. qpsmtpd is (intentionally) very flexible. :-) > Thanks for your help. - ask -- ask bjoern hansen, http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/ !try; do();
