On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, MiGhi wrote:
> >> I tried and tried to install QMAIL 1.03 on Mandrake7.0 with NO SUCCESS!
> >> Something seems to work wrong on Mandrake, and qmail gives CNAME LOOKUP
> >> FAILURE.
> >
> > I'm using Qmail under Mandrake right now, and have installed it a few
> > times, both via RPM and by compiling it right from the tarballs.
>
> I am very interested of your mail.
>
> In fact, I installed RedHat + qmail on a service machine.
> I love Mandrake (I have been using mandrake since Venice release), and I'd
> prefer to continue using it... but I love Qmail too ;)
I hear ya... I started with RedHat and much prefer Mandrake... =)
> > Does qmail start for you? Can it resolve
> > the MX for your domain?
>
> sure.
> Qmail works 100% but can't deliver mail to remote hosts: CNAME LOOKUP UP
> FAILURE.
> qmail receive mails at 100% and deliver them to local users (also at virtual
> domains).
> It can't deliver to remote hosts
Ok. Hmmmm... I've never had this problem, mind you I usually use my ISP's
SMTP server to send mail rather than qmail, but I have tried it and it has
worked.
> > The problem I had was in the
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail-pop3d.init file with the programs called in the
> > HOST variable (specifically dnsfq).
> > I changed those calls to specify the
> > domain name on my system and then it started working. Why it didn't work
> > before, I don't know, but after I made that change it did work.
> > If you install from tarballs,
>
> this is my installation
Ok, that's what I did this last time.
> > you use the qmail script (not any
> > qmail-*.init files which come from the tcpserver-initscripts package, I
> > believe), and I don't even think dnsfq is installed (at any rate, it's not
> > on my system), and things work fine.
>
> Yes.
>
> I follow Life with qmail for the installation.
> I repeat: Qmail works 100% but can't deliver mails to remote hosts.
> I couldn't explain this fact.
I don't know Miguel... I'm not an expert with qmail (far from it!) and
I'm not not sure what your problem could be. All I know is it has to be
*something* because if you followed Life with Qmail (which I did this last
time), and did it via tarball (which I also did), then there's something
else wrong. I know it's not Mandrake because my system works, but as to
what it could be, I wouldn't even know where to begin looking.
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