On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 02:24:51PM -0800, Howard Miller wrote:
> Sorry, sorry, sorry.....
>
> I am not really a newbie as such, but I am to MTAs. I can usually get
In which case you will have understood why an earlier poster asked that
you send the logs so we can see what's happening. In spite of that and
you "not really (being) a newbie", you still haven't supplied them.
Without logs we can offer no opinion at all.
> things going but I have been at this for nearly two weeks and I simply
> can't get it to work. It is at best confusing that the INSTALL
> documentation in the tarball suggests a different installation from the
> Howto, and is different again from "Living with qmail" (which DOES have
> some mistakes that even I spotted).
In which case, please send your observations to the author of that document,
he wants to hear feedback that improves his work.
> I have by now tried all of them, reloading Linux on my test machine each
> time. In each case something doesn't work and I am frustrated that
> documentation seems (to me anyway) to be lacking. I don't think that my
> requirements are in anyway strange (I need an ISP style setup - all local
> lan users though - with smtp and pop3).
Your requirements are absolutely normal and many thousands of people
have installed qmail without a glitch in such environments. The experience
of this list is that most people who come to it saying "it doesn't work",
usually end up finding they have not follow instructions to the letter. And,
be warned - if you claim that you have you'll need to support that claim
with proof.
> I am using SuSE V7 linux, if anybody out there has got a simillar
> arangement on a similar platform to work correctly I would be most
> interested to hear from them how they did it.
>
> Sorry to everybody again, for getting stroppy - you know what its like when
> you foolishly promise something in a few days...... oh well.
>
> Might I be better just using sendmail, which is built in to SuSE and seems
Whatever floats your boat. You're the one who lives with your choice,
not us. But if you want to persist with qmail, then you will need to
give details. Like logs files, config settings, what is and isn't working,
that sort of thing.
Regards.
