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Qmail is a Mail Transfer Agent. It handles incoming and +
Qmail is a Mail Transfer Agent. It handles incoming and outgoing mail. Install qmail if you want your OpenACS server to send and receive mail, and you don't want to use an alternate MTA.
Red Hat 9: all djb tools (qmail, daemontools, ucspi) will @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ tcpserver: usage: tcpserver [ -1UXpPhHrRoOdDqQv ] [ -c limit ] [ -x rules.cdb ] [ -B banner ] [ -g gid ] [ -u uid ] [ -b backlog ] [ -l localname ] [ -t timeout ] host port program [root ucspi-tcp-0.88]# -
(I'm not sure if this next step is 100% necessary, but when I skip it
I get problems. If you get the error 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) then you need to do this.) AOLserver sends outgoing mail via the ns_sendmail
command, which pipes a command to the sendmail executable. Or, in our
@@ -41,10 +41,10 @@
Unless this mail is addressed to the same machine, qmail thinks that
it's an attempt to relay mail, and rejects it. So these two commands
set up an exception so that any mail sent from 127.0.0.1 is allowed to
-send outgoing mail.
[root ucspi-tcp-0.88]#cp /tmp/openacs-5.7.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/tcp.smtp.txt /etc/tcp.smtp+send outgoing mail.[root ucspi-tcp-0.88]#cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/tcp.smtp.txt /etc/tcp.smtp[root ucspi-tcp-0.88]#tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp < /etc/tcp.smtp-cp /tmp/openacs-5.7.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/tcp.smtp.txt /etc/tcp.smtp -tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp < /etc/tcp.smtp
Download qmail, +cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/tcp.smtp.txt /etc/tcp.smtp +tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp < /etc/tcp.smtp
Download qmail, set up the standard supporting users and build the binaries:
[root root]#cd /usr/local/src[root src]#wget http://www.qmail.org/netqmail-1.04.tar.gz[root src]#tar xzf netqmail-1.04.tar.gz@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ cd netqmail-1.04 ./collate.sh cd netqmail-1.04 -make setup check
Replace sendmail with qmail's wrapper.
[root qmail-1.03]# rm -f /usr/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
+make setup checkReplace sendmail with qmail's wrapper.
[root qmail-1.03]#rm -f /usr/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail[root qmail-1.03]#ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail[root qmail-1.03]# rm -f /usr/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail @@ -125,13 +125,13 @@ cd ~alias; touch .qmail-postmaster .qmail-mailer-daemon .qmail-root chmod 644 ~alias/.qmail* /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake ~alias/Maildir/ -chown -R alias.nofiles /var/qmail/alias/Maildir
Configure qmail to use the Maildir delivery format +chown -R alias.nofiles /var/qmail/alias/Maildir
Configure qmail to use the Maildir delivery format (instead of mbox), and install a version of the qmail startup script modified to use Maildir.
[root alias]#echo "./Maildir" > /var/qmail/bin/.qmail-[root alias]#cp /tmp/openacs-5.7.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail.rc.txt /var/qmail/rc+[root alias]#cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail.rc.txt /var/qmail/rc[root alias]#chmod 755 /var/qmail/rc[root alias]# echo "./Maildir" > /var/qmail/bin/.qmail -cp /tmp/openacs-5.7.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail.rc.txt /var/qmail/rc +cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail.rc.txt /var/qmail/rc chmod 755 /var/qmail/rc
Set up the skeleton directory so that new users will be configured for qmail.
[root root]#/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake /etc/skel/Maildir@@ -143,13 +143,13 @@ [root root]#mkdir -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log[root root]#mkdir /var/log/qmail[root root]#chown qmaill /var/log/qmail-[root root]#cp /tmp/openacs-5.7.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmailctl.txt /var/qmail/bin/qmailctl+[root root]#cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmailctl.txt /var/qmail/bin/qmailctl[root root]#chmod 755 /var/qmail/bin/qmailctl[root root]#ln -s /var/qmail/bin/qmailctl /usr/bin-[root root]#cp /tmp/openacs-5.7.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-send-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run-[root root]#cp /tmp/openacs-5.7.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-send-log-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run-[root root]#cp /tmp/openacs-5.7.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-smtpd-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run-[root root]#cp /tmp/openacs-5.7.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-smtpd-log-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run+[root root]#cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-send-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run+[root root]#cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-send-log-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run+[root root]#cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-smtpd-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run+[root root]#cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-smtpd-log-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run[root root]#chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run[root root]#chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run[root root]#chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run@@ -160,13 +160,13 @@ mkdir -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log mkdir /var/log/qmail chown qmaill /var/log/qmail -cp /tmp/openacs-5.7.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmailctl.txt /var/qmail/bin/qmailctl +cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmailctl.txt /var/qmail/bin/qmailctl chmod 755 /var/qmail/bin/qmailctl ln -s /var/qmail/bin/qmailctl /usr/bin -cp /tmp/openacs-5.7.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-send-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run -cp /tmp/openacs-5.7.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-send-log-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run -cp /tmp/openacs-5.7.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-smtpd-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run -cp /tmp/openacs-5.7.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-smtpd-log-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run +cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-send-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run +cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-send-log-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run +cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-smtpd-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run +cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-smtpd-log-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run @@ -179,4 +179,4 @@ /service/qmail-smtpd/log: up (pid 32705) 430 seconds messages in queue: 0 messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0 -[root root]#
Further verify by sending and receiving email. Incoming mail for root is stored in /var/qmail/alias/Maildir.
Further verify by sending and receiving email. Incoming mail for root is stored in /var/qmail/alias/Maildir.