From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 22 8:35: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from garfield.freebsduser.org (dsl-64-34-25-237.telocity.com [64.34.25.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6184D37B424 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 08:35:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 49166 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2000 15:44:20 -0000 Received: from ultra2 (10.29.22.200) by garfield with SMTP; 22 Aug 2000 15:44:20 -0000 Message-ID: <00d601c00c4e$aa49a770$c8161d0a@ultra2.developers.local> From: "Jonel Rienton" To: "Giorgos Keramidas" , "Raoul Schroeder" Cc: "freebsd-questions" Subject: Re: qmail does not accept e-mail Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:35:56 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To: Raoul Schroeder Cc: freebsd-questions 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, >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