Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:47:38 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Dan=20Fairs?= <danfairs@yahoo.co.uk> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Raoul Schroeder <memphis_ms@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: qmail does not accept e-mail Message-ID: <20000823104738.53522.qmail@web3208.mail.yahoo.com>
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> In order to receive mail with SMTP over the network you need to set
> up
> qmail-smtpd to be started from your inetd. The line that you need to
> add to your inetd.conf is also included in qmail's
> /var/qmail/doc/FAQ,
> but it looks like:
>
> smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env
> /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
The qmail guys recommend that you use tcpserver instead of inetd. This
comes in the sysutils/ucspi-tcp port. This is how I start qmail-smtpd:
#!/bin/sh
QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild`
NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild`
exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \
/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -p -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \
-u $QMAILDUID -g $NOFILESGID 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1
softlimit comes from the sysutils/daemontools port.
I set up qmail in accordance with the 'Life With qmail' guide, a
comprehensive and clear document linked to from www.qmail.org.
Hope this helps,
Dan
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Daniel Fairs dan@spiderplant.no-spam.net
System Administrator
spiderplant.net
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