THANK YOU VINCENT.
Thank you very, very much. I really appreciate all your hard hours of work.
-John
--- Vincent Danen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu Apr 26, 2001 at 11:27:32AM +0100, Paulo Araujo wrote:
>
> > I'm using qmail for my mail server on Mandrake 7.2, but I would like to upgrade to
>MDK8.
> >
> > I've been reading the messages under the mailinglists newbie and expert and I find
>that it's
> probably advisable to do a fresh install rather then upgrading?!
>
> I, personally, always find it beneficial to do a clean install rather
> than an upgrade. It's faster and doesn't leave any cruft behind. A
> bit more of a pain sometimes, but I'm guaranteed a working system.
> The last time I did an upgrade (mind you, this was like 6.0->6.1 so it
> was a while ago), it wreaked havoc on my system.
>
> > Installing qmail is not a task for a sunday afternoon!!! I took almost a week to
>make it
> work... so I would like to avoid reeinstalling it!
>
> How about taking the 5 minute solution? =) Visit
> www.freezer-burn.org/qmail.php and download the qmail, daemontools,
> ucspi-tcp, dot-forward, fastforward, and checkpassword RPMs I
> created. In 5 minutes you'll have a fully-functioning qmail server
> ready at your beck and call. =) They were built under 7.2 but work
> just fine under 8.0 as well.
>
> > As I find qmail more secure and faster (and other things...) then sendmail or
>postfix,
> wouldn't Mandrakesoft include it in their distributions?
>
> There is a... ahem... problem with the license in qmail that prevents
> us from doing so. My RPMs follow the license to the letter, but it's
> a very grey area so we prefer not to do it. You will notice, however,
> the 8.0 is "qmail-ready"... a bunch of packages like daemontools and
> such are in contribs, and the qmail users are integrated into the
> system. All you need to do is download my RPM and you're ready to
> rock.
>
> > So, should I try and upgrade... and what about "svscan" and "tcpserver" ?
>
> Do your fresh install and use my rpms. A lot of time and energy went
> into them to make them as close to perfect as is possible, and they
> work quite well.
>
> One caveat... when you install the packages, in order to get it
> working right away, you will need to do two extra steps (as opposed to
> waiting an hour for it work):
>
> /etc/cron.hourly/qmail
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail cdb
>
> Then you can do:
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail start
>
> Good luck!
>
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