From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 22 8:19:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hellasnet.gr (mail.hellasnet.gr [212.54.192.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33A1A37B423 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:19:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (ppp3.patr.hellasnet.gr [212.54.197.18]) by mail.hellasnet.gr (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA14842; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 18:19:45 +0200 (GMT) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.10.2/8.10.2) id e7MFHHw19171; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 18:17:17 +0300 (EEST) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 18:17:17 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Raoul Schroeder Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: qmail does not accept e-mail Message-ID: <20000822181717.B19104@hades.hell.gr> References: <39A1E429.C56C978C@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <39A1E429.C56C978C@gmx.net>; from memphis_ms@gmx.net on Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 10:23:37PM -0400 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 10:23:37PM -0400, Raoul Schroeder wrote: > I recently installed a FreeBSD 4.1 machine, never bothered with > sendmail, and installed qmail directly. ... > > However, I do not receive mails from the outside world. It never > even shows up in /var/log/maillog (checked) I temporarily disabled > all the tcpwrappers in hosts.allow (allowing anything), still no > success... I don't get a failure message from the sender, either. 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 and then you will have to restart your inetd, with: # killall -hup inetd -- Giorgos Keramidas, For my public pgp2 key: finger -l keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message