Well, we all had to start somewhere didn't we? Did you know everything
about MTAs the first time you installed one? I am almost completely new to
Unix systems but have had many years experience on various other platforms.
I am the first to admit that I am used to commercial, expensively
documented and supported software and am finding the Open Source ideas
quite a culture shock. I did in fact read everything I could find about
qmail and its peripheral programs, but it isn't so easy when everything I
read told me to install it in a different way. What else was I suppose to do?
I have got qmail working now. I have a few little bugs to sort out but I'm
sure that I will. This would not have been possible without the kind help
of a number of people on the mailing list who solved my problems. They
didn't have to help me at all of course! If you are sure your script works
then great, it most certainly is something I have done wrong but nobody
came up with a better explanation than chopping out all the delivery rules
except the ./Maildir/ bit (which I do understand BTW)
Anyway, just you wait until I'm a Unix expert!!!! You might need to give me
a few years though at this rate.
Howard Miller
(Long suffering NT - yes NT - sysadmin/developer)
At 10:47 03/11/00 -0500, you wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 09:16:24AM -0800, Howard Miller wrote:
> > Not a clue, but it still didn't work for me, my system was trying to send
> > to " __./Maildir/" (the underscores are for real). It was help from
> guys on
> > the qmail mailing list that suggested that the rc script didn't look
> > correct. Getting rid of all the do-forward stuff got it working. To be
> > honest (and excuse my ignorance, I am an MTA newbie) I don't see what
> > dot-forward does anyway, my system seems to do what I need without it.
> I am
> > not upgrading from sendmail however.
>
>I've seen your posts on the qmail mailing list, and it's obvious that you
>don't know what you're doing. If you don't know what a program does, then
>you certainly shouldn't be installing it on your system, regardless of what
>some HOWTO says.
>
> > Howard
> >
> > PS I have got lots and lots of real work to do. If I send you an email
> > amout your HOWTO its because I am trying to help. I followed your
> otherwise
> > excellent howto to the letter - it is quite clear and easy to follow, but
> > it didn't work. I am sure other people will have similar problems.
>
>Funny, you're the only person who's had this particular problem. I've set up
>almost all of my customers with that exact same /var/qmail/rc and I've never
>had a problem.
>
>--Adam
