On Thursday 04 January 2007 00:26, Devin Carraway wrote:
> This is a known obstacle in the qpsmtpd installation under Debian,
OK!
> and the reason the default behavior is not to attempt to start up by
> default. There's some discussion of this in the package's README,
> and in the debconf dialog ("Enable qpsmtpd startup at boot time?")
> asked when qpsmtpd is installed.
Right! I think I answered yes to something like that, but I'm not sure.
>
> There are quite a few MTAs in Debian, and most of them listen on port
> 25 by default.
Yup, and that's reasonable.
> Automatically reconfiguring them not to isn't really
> feasible. Jumping ahead in the startup order isn't really a good
> strategy, because it just makes a different piece fail instead of
> qpsmptd.
Right.
[...]
> This will start qmail-send ahead of qpsmtpd, but not start
> qmail-smtpd at all.
Right! Thanks a lot for this!
> If you use this approach you'll probably want to
> be sure qpsmtpd is instructed to listen on all port 25s by default,
> instead of the loopback/external interface arrangement some folks
> use. You can run 'dpkg-reconfigure qpsmtpd' to adjust this if
> needed.
I think I've got that now, at least it works! :-)
Thanks again,
Kjetil
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