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Qmail is a Mail Transfer Agent. It handles incoming and +
Qmail is a Mail Transfer Agent. It handles incoming and outgoing mail. Install qmail if you want your OpenACS server to send and receive mail, and you don't want to use an alternate MTA.
Red Hat 9: all djb tools (qmail, daemontools, ucspi) will @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ tcpserver: usage: tcpserver [ -1UXpPhHrRoOdDqQv ] [ -c limit ] [ -x rules.cdb ] [ -B banner ] [ -g gid ] [ -u uid ] [ -b backlog ] [ -l localname ] [ -t timeout ] host port program [root@yourserver ucspi-tcp-0.88]# -
(I'm not sure if this next step is 100% necessary, but when I skip it I get problems. If you get the error 553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1) then you need to do this.) AOLServer sends outgoing mail via the ns_sendmail command, which pipes a command to the sendmail executable. Or, in our @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ send outgoing mail.
[root@yourserver ucspi-tcp-0.88]# cp /tmp/openacs-5.0.0b1/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/tcp.smtp.txt /etc/tcp.smtp
[root@yourserver ucspi-tcp-0.88]# tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp < /etc/tcp.smtp
cp /tmp/openacs-5.0.0b1/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/tcp.smtp.txt /etc/tcp.smtp
-tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp < /etc/tcp.smtp Download qmail, +tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp < /etc/tcp.smtp
Download qmail, set up the standard supporting users and build the binaries:
[root@yourserver root]# cd /usr/local/src [root@yourserver src]# wget http://www.qmail.org/netqmail-1.04.tar.gz [root@yourserver src]# tar xzf netqmail-1.04.tar.gz @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ cd netqmail-1.04 ./collate.sh cd netqmail-1.04 -make setup check
Replace sendmail with qmail's wrapper.
[root@yourserver qmail-1.03]# rm -f /usr/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail +make setup check
Replace sendmail with qmail's wrapper.
[root@yourserver qmail-1.03]# rm -f /usr/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail [root@yourserver qmail-1.03]# ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail [root@yourserver qmail-1.03]#rm -f /usr/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@cd ~alias; touch .qmail-postmaster .qmail-mailer-daemon .qmail-root chmod 644 ~alias/.qmail* /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake ~alias/Maildir/ -chown -R alias.nofiles /var/qmail/alias/MaildirConfigure qmail to use the Maildir delivery format +chown -R alias.nofiles /var/qmail/alias/Maildir
Configure qmail to use the Maildir delivery format (instead of mbox), and install a version of the qmail startup script modified to use Maildir.
[root@yourserver alias]# echo "./Maildir" > /var/qmail/bin/.qmail [root@yourserver alias]# cp /tmp/openacs-5.0.0b1/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail.rc.txt /var/qmail/rc [root@yourserver alias]# chmod 755 /var/qmail/rc