From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 16 8: 9:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ares.blahz.ab.ca (h24-64-70-105.cg.shawcable.net [24.64.70.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 81A2437B41E for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:09:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd-lists@blahz.ab.ca) Received: (qmail 20483 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2001 15:09:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO zeus) (24.64.68.214) by h24-64-70-105.cg.shawcable.net with SMTP; 16 Aug 2001 15:09:38 -0000 From: "Mike Roest" To: "'Martin Hasenbein'" Cc: Subject: RE: qmail install problem Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 09:12:51 -0600 Message-ID: <000201c12665$eaed57e0$d6444018@zeus> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <20010816165309.E90389@Space.Net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is how I always setup the control dir: Control/me: FQDN of your machine Control/locals: Domains one per line that will be delivered to local accounts Control/defaultdomain: Default domain Control/plusdomain: Portion of domain to be added if the is a "+" in the email addres (not sure) Control/rcpthosts: Domains that this server will be receiving mail for. Locals and virtualdomains Control/virtualdomains: Domains and there corresponding usernames for virtualdomains (only required if using vmailmgr or other virtual domain package) Contol/checkpassword: Program qmail-popup will be using to check passwords. (only if using builtin pop3 server) Control/defaulthost: Usually the same as defaultdomain -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Martin Hasenbein Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 8:53 AM To: Darryl Hoar Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: qmail install problem Darryl Hoar (darryl@osborne-ind.com) wrote: > Greetings, > Am running 4.3-release. > > I want to install and run qmail on my machine. So, > I cd /usr/ports/mail/qmail. make make install. > Read the docs for setting things up. Do the changes > that the qmail docs want. When I restart the computer, > I get: > qmail: Alert: Cannot Start: unable to read controls. > > looked in the /var/qmail/control directory and its empty. > > Searched google and found a reference that if you don't have > DNS, you need to manually build control/me yourself. > > Any ideas or pointers? This is for an internal mail server, > and our LAN does not use internal DNS. > Hi Darryl, take a look at http://www.lifewithqmail.org /martin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message