From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 20 09:42:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA06102 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:42:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shemp.palomine.net (shemp.palomine.net [205.198.88.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA06088 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:42:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjohnson@palomine.net) Received: (qmail 16313 invoked by uid 1000); 20 Oct 1998 16:41:42 -0000 Message-ID: <19981020124142.A16285@palomine.net> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 12:41:42 -0400 From: Chris Johnson To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, millert@direct.ca Subject: Re: URGENT MESSAGE about QMAIL Installation! References: <199810200517.WAA07112@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199810200517.WAA07112@hub.freebsd.org>; from questions-digest on Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 10:17:39PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have been trying to install Qmail to my freebsd 2.2.6 release for some time > I have tried installing the new port from the current release and tried > downloading the 1.03 from qmail.org and nothing seems to work. I can only get > the program to send mail out. I cant get popper to check the main that I can > see. popper looks for mail in /var/mail. In its stock configuration, Qmail doesn't store mail in /var/mail. It can be made to store mail there, and there are a variety of ways to make popper look elsewhere ($HOME/Mailbox) for mail. You can patch it, or you can create symlinks to ~user/Mailbox from /var/mail/user for every user. You can also use Maildir delivery, which the Qmail pop3 daemon understands. Whatever you choose to do, you'll probably have to start by reading the Qmail documentation and the various INSTALL files from the distribution. You'll also probably have better luck posting this question to the Qmail mailing list--it's not really a FreeBSD issue. There's a lot of good stuff on www.qmail.org that'll help too. > and I cant sendmail to the server remotely I'm not sure what "cant sendmail to the server remotely" means, but I suspect that it means that you haven't made the appropriate entry in /etc/inetd.conf to run qmail-smtpd. Again, the documentation will tell you how to do this. > and I cant send a message from a remote program through the server. When I > had sendmail it worked fine but I found out that a security hole in it was > active and now I want to switch to qmail. You need to make a symlink to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail from /usr/sbin/sendmail (and you'll have to restore this symlink after a make world). This step is in the installation documentation. Qmail is not a drop-in replacement for sendmail. If you just install the port, or compile and install it from the sources and don't completely configure your system to use Qmail, it's not going to work. It's not at all difficult to do, and everything you need to do is very well documented, but you do have to do it. Chris Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message