qmail
Tom Achtenberg
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:00:18 -0700
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From: slr [mailto:zen2now@qwest.net]
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 8:06 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: qmail
i have a question for the qmail people out there. this is my first time working with qmail, anyway there seemed to be a big push to use Maildir instead of mbox in the docs that i have read. so that is what i did, i conf. qmail to use Maildir and non-system accounts. which is partly working, i can send, so smtp is working find, and i can connect pop3 to the server using both evolution and OE6. but qmail doesnt seem to be delivering the mail to the Maildir for the test account. also relaying seems to be a problem, i followed these instructions but had no success:
8a. Access Control
Before we can start up our qmail smtpd, we need to do some access control.
The simplest way to do this is by using files in /etc. I use /etc/tcp.smtp as my
access control file. If you don't need to do any access control, /etc/tcp.smtp can have just
one line:
:allow
Note that a default configuration does not allow for ANY relaying, even from localhost.
To allow relaying from localhost and your local network, you would have to use something
like this:
127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
192.168.1.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
:allow
After you've created your rules, you need to activate them. tcpserver works by reading
a cdb (database) file. You use the tcprules program to build the database file from your
/etc/tcp.smtp file. This is accomplished by the following command:
# tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp < /etc/tcp.smtp
it wasnt until i added the host i was sending, to the rcpthosts file in /var/qmail/control.
thx in advance for any help.
slr
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> slr
[mailto:zen2now@qwest.net]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 31, 2002 8:06
AM<BR><B>To:</B> plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us<BR><B>Subject:</B>
qmail<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>i have a question for the qmail
people out there. this is my first time working with qmail, anyway there
seemed to be a big push to use Maildir instead of mbox in the docs that i have
read. so that is what i did, i conf. qmail to use Maildir and non-system
accounts. which is partly working, i can send, so smtp is working find, and i
can connect pop3 to the server using both evolution and OE6. but qmail doesnt
seem to be delivering the mail to the Maildir for the test account. also
relaying seems to be a problem, i followed these instructions but had no
success:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>8a. Access Control<BR>Before we can
start up our qmail smtpd, we need to do some access control.<BR>The simplest
way to do this is by using files in /etc. I use /etc/tcp.smtp as
my<BR>access control file. If you don't need to do any access control,
/etc/tcp.smtp can have just<BR>one line:<BR>:allow </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Note that a default configuration
does not allow for ANY relaying, even from localhost.<BR>To allow relaying
from localhost and your local network, you would have to use something<BR>like
this:<BR>127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""<BR>192.168.1.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""<BR>:allow</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>After you've created your rules,
you need to activate them. tcpserver works by reading<BR>a cdb
(database) file. You use the tcprules program to build the database file
from your<BR>/etc/tcp.smtp file. This is accomplished by the following
command:<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2># tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb
/etc/tcp.smtp.tmp < /etc/tcp.smtp</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>it wasnt until i added the host i
was sending, to the rcpthosts file in /var/qmail/control.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>thx in advance for any
help.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>slr</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>
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