"Fitzpatrick, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello. I am trying to install qmail on my redhat 6.0 system. I uninstalled
>sendmail, and because of conflicts (i'm never brave enough to do --nodeps) I
>had to uninstall mh, exmh and also fetchmail I believe. I started qmail in
>/etc/inted.conf, made sure that /etc/services had the proper ports open.
>netstat -an | grep 25 told me that something was listening to port 25
>(hurrah!) and a ps -A showed that qmail was running.
>
>However, whenever I telnet to my port 25 I get booted. It does "pick up"
>and tells you that the escape character is ^[ and whatnot, but it
>disconnects me real quickly. my hosts.allow and hosts.deny specify that the
>localhost should be able to get through on port 25.
>
>What else do I need to do, or what did I do wrong and how can I get things
>to work properly.
I'd recommend installing using the instructions in "Life with qmail":
http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#installation
-Dave
