LifeWithQmail.org does have a lot of information about setting up Qmail, but there's parts of it that I can't even get working. Here's the output of qmail-showctl. You can see below that I'm having some problems.
qmail home directory: /var/qmail. user-ext delimiter: -. paternalism (in decimal): 2. silent concurrency limit: 120. subdirectory split: 23. user ids: 64010, 64011, 64015, 0, 64016, 64014, 64013, 64012. group ids: 65534, 64010. badmailfrom: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is allowed. bouncefrom: (Default.) Bounce user name is MAILER-DAEMON. bouncehost: (Default.) Bounce host name is bouncehost. concurrencylocal: (Default.) Local concurrency is 10. concurrencyremote: (Default.) Remote concurrency is 20. databytes: (Default.) SMTP DATA limit is 0 bytes. defaultdomain: (Default.) Default domain name is defaultdomain. defaulthost: (Default.) Default host name is defaulthost. doublebouncehost: (Default.) 2B recipient host: doublebouncehost. doublebounceto: (Default.) 2B recipient user: postmaster. envnoathost: (Default.) Presumed domain name is envnoathost. helohost: (Default.) SMTP client HELO host name is helohost. idhost: (Default.) Message-ID host name is idhost. localiphost: (Default.) Local IP address becomes localiphost. locals: (Default.) Messages for me are delivered locally. me: (Default.) My name is undefined! Uh-oh. percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not allowed. plusdomain: (Default.) Plus domain name is plusdomain. qmqpservers: (Default.) No QMQP servers. queuelifetime: (Default.) Message lifetime in the queue is 604800 seconds. rcpthosts: SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at localhost. morercpthosts: (Default.) No effect. morercpthosts.cdb: (Default.) No effect. smtpgreeting: (Default.) SMTP greeting: 220 smtpgreeting. smtproutes: (Default.) No artificial SMTP routes. timeoutconnect: (Default.) SMTP client connection timeout is 60 seconds. timeoutremote: (Default.) SMTP client data timeout is 1200 seconds. timeoutsmtpd: (Default.) SMTP server data timeout is 1200 seconds. virtualdomains: Virtual domain: my.domain.com:my.domain.com users: I have no idea what this file does. rcpthosts.bak: I have no idea what this file does. virtualdomains.bak: I have no idea what this file does. defaultdelivery: I have no idea what this file does. concurrencyincoming: I have no idea what this file does. Search these file names on the qmail tutorial to see what they do.Also, here's a warning message I get when starting qmail. Starting qmail svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-send/log: file does not exist svc: warning: unable to control /service/qmail-smtpd/log: file does not exist On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 16:01, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 02:32:09PM -0700, Blake Covarrubias wrote: > > [ please don't top post ] > > > On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 14:37, Mark Sprong wrote: > > > Blake Covarrubias wrote: > > > > Hi, I'm trying to setup a web and email server for our LUG. I've chosen > > > > qmail for my MTA. I'm having a rough time getting it configured though. > > > > There aren't too many tutorials around online on how to configure qmail, > > > > so I'm pretty much stuck on where to even start. :( Does anyone know of > > > > any good tutorials or HOWTOs that'll help me setup qmail under Debian > > > > Woody? I'm using the qmail-src package from Woody BTW. > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ > > > > Thanks Mark. I should have mentioned that I've already tried this > > tutorial, and my attempts to get email working have failed. :( I'm not > > sure what I've done wrong. > > No offense intended, but if you can't get qmail up and running after > reading lifewithqmail.org, you probably ought to be running an MTA > that's easier to configure. Debian installs exim by default; it's not > too hard to get going. > > -- > Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Never tell people how to do things. Tell them WHAT to do and > they will surprise you with their ingenuity. > -- Gen. George S. Patton, Jr. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
