Dear Greg, Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> writes:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 09:58:11PM +0900, 황병희 wrote: >> Hi, there is no qmail package in bullseye. what's wrong? > > If you wish to use qmail, the recommended way to do it is: > > 1) Install equivs, and use it to build the "mta-local" package. > There's an example file for it: > /usr/share/doc/equivs/examples/mail-transport-agent.ctl > Read the instructions in /usr/share/doc/equivs/README.Debian . > > 2) Install the mta-local package (.deb file). If you've already got a > different Debian MTA package installed, this should remove it. Or, > you can use dpkg --force-depends to remove it manually, before > installing mta-local. > > 3) Build and install qmail from your preferred source tree. > > 4) Set up the symlink from /usr/sbin/sendmail to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail > or wherever you placed the qmail programs. > > 5) Set up whatever method you prefer to start qmail at boot time. > > The Debian packaging used to take care of those last two, but now it's > up to us. > > Please note that the original qmail-smtpd is NOT good to use without > patching or replacing. It was written in an era when spam was only > beginning to be a threat. If you run qmail-smtpd on the Internet, you > WILL become a joe-job spam bouncer, and we don't want that. > > If you're not up for the task of replacing qmail-smtpd, or restricting > it solely to trusted internal LAN traffic, then please don't run qmail. > It's not for everyone, and there are alternatives that would be a lot > simpler to set up. Thank you for very kind detail how-to, step-by-step. In honest, i did want to do demonstration on QMTP with qmail. Anyway your article will help me in the future! Sincerely, QMTP fan Byung-Hee
