On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 12:03:38AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have some really basic questions on qmail. My current MTA is smail on
> a Linux/Debian single user machine. I also have fetchmail to retrieve
> incoming mail from my ISP and procmail to process it. As a MUA I'm
> using Mutt, and I have a dial on demand connection.
>
> 1. Do I need fetchmail (or similar) for retrieving mail, or does qmail
> take care of this as well?
Use fetchmail.
> 2. Would I still be able to process the incoming mail with procmail?
Yep.
> 3. The install file says I must make a /var/qmail/ directory, but
> currently, the smail dir in my system is in /var/spool/smail/, will it
> be fine if I change this in conf-qmail? How about other directories
> such as /var/log/smail/, do I have to create /var/log/qmail?
Use /var/qmail. Logging is something you should work out for yourself, the
simplest setup just logs to syslog.
For better performance, check out cyclog from djb's daemontools.
Greetz, Peter
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