Hi all, I've spent quite a few hours trying to install qpsmtpd, with only limited success. Here are some of the issues:
1. Does qpsmtpd need to be "compiled" and installed? This article http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1235770,00.html by James Turnbull, which is very recent and detailed, calls for # perl Makefile.PL # make # make install I've tried this with both the 0.32 tarball and with http://svn.perl.org/qpsmtpd/branches/0.3x, and both give the same result from perl Makefile.PL: Checking if your kit is complete... Warning: the following files are missing in your kit: META.yml Please inform the author. WARNING: Setting ABSTRACT via file 'README' failed at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm line 606 Writing Makefile for qpsmtpd It seems that I can still make and make install, but I don't know whether the result is flawed or not. 2. Other instructions, including the README, don't mention 'make' at all. I was able to run # ./qpsmtpd-forkserver -u $USER under the root account and successfully queue an email message through port 2525. I set up an smtpd user according to the instructions in http://www.pycs.net/lateral/stories/11.html and http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1235770,00.html , but running # ./qpsmtpd-forkserver without the -u parameter (which is supposed to default to smtpd) results in the message: Could not create spool_dir /root/tmp/: Permission denied at lib/Qpsmtpd.pm line 464. Why would it try to create /root/tmp, if it's supposed to run as smtpd? # ./qpsmtpd-forkserver -u smptd gives the same result -- at least some consistency in the failure... 3. I'm running a very small mail server, only a few hundred emails per day. It's a Suse 9.3 running under Plesk 8.0.1 with qmail, but but it's not a "standard" qmail installation -- qmail-smtpd runs under xinetd, daemontools is not installed. I'd like to embed qpsmtpd as much as possible into the existing setup. Since qmail-smtpd is running under xinetd, I figured I might try running qpsmtpd in the same environment, at least to get started. http://wiki.qpsmtpd.org/deploy:start#x_inetd mentions xinetd all right. It points to a patch at http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qpsmtpd/5765 which seems to be already included in the current svn version, but I wasn't able to find any current information on how to actually run it. Peter J. Holzer wrote that "It's basically the same patch as for 0.28." and I was able to dig that one up somewhere as qpsmtpd-xinetd.tar.gz, which also includes run.xi -- that seems like a step in the right direction, but how do I tell this thing to run on port 25? 4. Well, xinetd seems to be out of favor anyway, and this link http://wiki.qpsmtpd.org/inetd?DokuWiki=9f8ba8fcd90e3c53f6a715c256a51775&do=revisions shows that there used to be an xinetd page in the wiki, but it was moved two weeks ago by jamtur01, and since then it has vanished. So I looked at http://wiki.qpsmtpd.org/deploy:sysvinit, which should actually fit my server installation, but telling by the file paths, this variant seems to apply to a "compiled" installation according to James Turnbull (#1 above). However, in line 18 of http://wiki.qpsmtpd.org/deploy:sysvinit is . /etc/init.d/functions I don't have that executable -- what does it do? If I leave line 25 pointing to dir="/usr/share/qpsmtpd" then I get: Starting /usr/share/qpsmtpd/qpsmtpd-forkserver: ./qpsmtpd-forkserver: line 32: /usr/share/qpsmtpd/qpsmtpd-forkserver: No such file or directory OTOH, if I point it to dir="/usr/bin" (where make install has put qpsmtpd-forkserver, then I get: Starting /usr/bin/qpsmtpd-forkserver: could not open /usr/bin/plugins/logging/warn: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/Qpsmtpd/Plugin.pm line 121. BTW, in http://wiki.qpsmtpd.org/deploy:sysvinit "127.0.0l" (zero-el) should probably be "127.0.0.1" (zero-dot-one). I have so many bits and pieces, and none seem to fit together. Can anyone put me on the right track? Hans ___________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de
