Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:35:56 -0500 From: "Jonel Rienton" <freebsd@jonelrienton.org> 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: <00d601c00c4e$aa49a770$c8161d0a@ultra2.developers.local>
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i suggest you use tcpserver(ucspi-tcp) package instead of using inetd to start smtp service just my 2 cents. -----Original Message----- From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Raoul Schroeder <memphis_ms@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 10:28 AM Subject: Re: qmail does not accept e-mail >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, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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