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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 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 ucspi-tcp-0.88]# cp /tmp/openacs-5.0.0b4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/tcp.smtp.txt /etc/tcp.smtp
[root ucspi-tcp-0.88]# tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp < /etc/tcp.smtp
cp /tmp/openacs-5.0.0b4/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 root]# cd /usr/local/src [root src]# wget http://www.qmail.org/netqmail-1.04.tar.gz [root 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 qmail-1.03]# rm -f /usr/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail +make setup check
Replace sendmail with qmail's wrapper.
[root qmail-1.03]# rm -f /usr/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
[root qmail-1.03]# ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
[root qmail-1.03]#
rm -f /usr/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
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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 alias]# echo "./Maildir" > /var/qmail/bin/.qmail [root alias]# cp /tmp/openacs-5.0.0b4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail.rc.txt /var/qmail/rc [root alias]# chmod 755 /var/qmail/rc