" IMO, nobody should run qmail's smtp daemon these days." I run it in the configuration that Charlie's asking about, and it seems to work well. Forwards to port 2525 where qmail picks it up.
If there's a better way to run qpsmtpd without qmail, please post - I'd be interested in trying that one out to see if it's better than what I've got going! Marcus -----Original Message----- From: Guy Hulbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:41 AM To: Charlie Brady Cc: Atik; [email protected] Subject: Re: qmail port On Wed, 2007-03-01 at 11:32 -0500, Charlie Brady wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Atik wrote: > > > how to configure my qmail server (smtp port) to run on 2525 port instead of > > 25 > > my OS is Redhat enterprise As4 On Debian the answer is to set the environment variable TCPLOCALPORT to 2525 in the script which starts qmail. This should work on RedHat too but I am not sure of the details. Look for /etc/init.d/qmail You will need to put this at the top of the script: export TCPLOCALPORT=2525 This is documented in the 'tcp-environ' man-page which comes with qmail but you also have to know that qmail-smptd is run under tcpserver (and I had to grope a bit after that). A comment on the original response follows. --gh > > IMO, nobody should run qmail's smtp daemon these days. However, since > you've asked on the qpsmtpd list, perhaps you intend to run qpsmtpd. Good. Perhaps he wants to run qmail on port 2525 because he will be running qpsmtpd on port 25. > > > thank you for any tip you can give! > <snip> > Have you read any qpsmtpd documentation? This response strikes me as quite rude if you are not going to answer his question. I recall mention of port 2525 when I was researching qpsmtpd. Let's try goole: running qmail on port 2525 What a surprise, the first four hits are on qpsmtpd articles. In particular the text quoted by google from Matt Seargeant's article says: Next, convince your current SMTP server (qmail, postfix, exim, or whatever you currently use) to run on a port 2525. I'll leave that up to you to work out, ... Probably why he's asking eh ?
