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Qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple Mail Transfer Agent. It handles incoming and +
Qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple 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.
- -- Install qmail. - QMail is available as standard Debian/Ubuntu package, + MTA.
Install qmail. QMail is available as standard Debian/Ubuntu package, rpms for Fedora/Redhat/CenTOS are available from QMail wiki - page -
-- Replace sendmail with qmail's wrapper. -
- -[root qmail-1.03]# rm -f /usr/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
+ pageReplace 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 -ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
Configure qmail - specifically, run the config script to set up files in /var/qmail/control specifying the computer's identity and which addresses it should accept mail for. This command will automatically set up qmail correctly if you have correctly set a valid host nome. If not, you'll want to read /var/qmail/doc/INSTALL.ctl to find out how to configure qmail.
[root qmail-1.03]# ./config-fast yourserver.test
+rm -f /usr/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
+ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmailConfigure qmail - specifically, run the config script to set up files in /var/qmail/control specifying the computer's identity and which addresses it should accept mail for. This command will automatically set up qmail correctly if you have correctly set a valid host nome. If not, you'll want to read /var/qmail/doc/INSTALL.ctl to find out how to configure qmail.
[root qmail-1.03]#-./config-fast yourserver.testYour fully qualified host name is yourserver.test. Putting yourserver.test into control/me... Putting yourserver.test into control/defaultdomain... @@ -34,39 +18,29 @@ Now qmail will refuse to accept SMTP messages except to yourserver.test. Make sure to change rcpthosts if you add hosts to locals or virtualdomains! [root qmail-1.03]# -./config-fastyourserver.test
All incoming mail that isn't for a specific user is handled by the alias user. This includes all root mail. These commands prepare the alias user to receive mail.
[root qmail-1.03]# cd ~alias; touch .qmail-postmaster .qmail-mailer-daemon .qmail-root
+./config-fast yourserver.testAll incoming mail that isn't for a specific user is handled by the alias user. This includes all root mail. These commands prepare the alias user to receive mail.
[root qmail-1.03]#- -cd ~alias; touch .qmail-postmaster .qmail-mailer-daemon .qmail-root[root alias]#chmod 644 ~alias/.qmail*[root alias]#/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake ~alias/Maildir/[root alias]#chown -R alias.nofiles /var/qmail/alias/Maildir[root alias]# -cd ~alias; touch .qmail-postmaster .qmail-mailer-daemon .qmail-root +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 - (instead of mbox), and install a version of the qmail startup script modified to use Maildir.
-[root alias]# echo "./Maildir" > /var/qmail/bin/.qmail
+chown -R alias.nofiles /var/qmail/alias/MaildirConfigure 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-5.9.0/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 +echo "./Maildir" > /var/qmail/bin/.qmail 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
+Set up the skeleton directory so that new users will + be configured for qmail.
[root root]#- -/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake /etc/skel/Maildir[root root]#echo "./Maildir/" > /etc/skel/.qmail[root root]# -/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake /etc/skel/Maildir -echo "./Maildir/" > /etc/skel/.qmail
As recommended, we will run qmail with daemontools - control files. Create daemontools control directories, set up a daemontools control script, copy the supervise control files, and set permissions. The last line links the control directories to /service, which will cause supervise to detect them and execute the run files, causing qmail to start.
-[root root]# mkdir -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log
+/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake /etc/skel/Maildir
+echo "./Maildir/" > /etc/skel/.qmailAs recommended, we will run qmail with daemontools + control files. Create daemontools control directories, set up a daemontools control script, copy the supervise control files, and set permissions. The last line links the control directories to /service, which will cause supervise to detect them and execute the run files, causing qmail to start.
[root root]#-mkdir -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log[root root]#mkdir -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log[root root]#mkdir /var/log/qmail[root root]#chown qmaill /var/log/qmail@@ -83,7 +57,7 @@ [root root]#chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run[root root]#ln -s /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd /service[root root]#ln -s /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd /service-mkdir -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log +mkdir -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log mkdir -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log mkdir /var/log/qmail chown qmaill /var/log/qmail @@ -99,16 +73,11 @@ chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run ln -s /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd /service -
Wait ten seconds or so, and then verify that the four qmail processes are running. If uptimes don't rise above 1 second, this may indicate broken scripts that are continuously restarting. In that case, start debugging by checking permissions.
-[root root]# qmailctl stat
+Wait ten seconds or so, and then verify that the four qmail processes are running. If uptimes don't rise above 1 second, this may indicate broken scripts that are continuously restarting. In that case, start debugging by checking permissions.
[root root]# qmailctl stat
/service/qmail-send: up (pid 32700) 430 seconds
/service/qmail-send/log: up (pid 32701) 430 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 32704) 430 seconds
/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.