Hello there,
I'm now in my 3rd attempt to migrate to Linux. I have failed at the previous
two, but I'm proud to admit that I got further every time I tried. I'm
having all kinds of trouble, but I'm confident that I'll get thru it this time.
My first big problem is email. I have a dial-up Internet account which
provides me with a dynamic IP. A really nice guy has given me a POP3
account on his system and now we are trying to solve our SMTP problems... :-)
I truly don't know how to organize my email system. I have read all the FAQs
and HOWTOs I could find and they pretty much pointed me in the same direction:
to use Qmail (or sendmail) to deliver my mail locally and fetchmail to
retrieve my mail from the POP3 server.
I obtained the Qmail sources and compiled them. The first problem I have is
that I don't know what FQDN I should use for my system. I've tried with
precious (the system's name), localhost, and localhost.localdomain. The latter
seems to be OK. I only have one user account, jeremias, and the
root account. I edited the /var/qmail/users/assign file to redirect root's
mail to jeremias. I'm trying to use the new Maildir format, so I
created two Maildir folders, one in /root/Maildir and the other in
/home/jeremias/Maildir.
When I start Qmail and test it locally (as it is described in the docs), I get
error messages like these:
(..) localhost splogger: 953242046.653579 alert: unable to opendir info/1,
sleeping...
(..) localhost qmail: 953242047.563439 starting
delivery 1: msg 280 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(..) localhost qmail: 953242047.563439 starting delivery 2: msg 279 to remote
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(..) localhost qmail: 953242047.592951 delivery 2: deferral:
CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3)/
(..) localhost qmail: 953242047.610623 delivery 1: deferral:
Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/
(..) localhost splogger: 953242056.663598 alert: unable to opendir
info/1, sleeping...
To which addresses should I send to test local delivery? I've tried root,
jeremias, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I
got all these error messages.
Is the Qmail/fetchmail combination appropriate for my system? Does anybody
recommend some other programs? I'm really looking for suggestions...
Another problem I have is related to StarOffice. I installed it as user root
and everything went fine. The program runs flawlessly, when I'm root, but I
had to "hack" KDE (copy the mimelnk and the other necessary files to
jeremias's home dir) to get the icons in jeremias's menu. In spite of that, I
can't run StarOffice as jeremias. Any hints?
Another thing is that I don't know if I'm setting my permissions right. I've
read in the docs that I shouldn't always run as root. Instead, I should have
my user account and utilize root only for administrative purposes. That's the
reason I created the jeremias account, although I'm going to be the only user
of this system at least for this year. Should I change this strategy?
I'm also having trouble trying to compile. At first the compiler couldn't find
the include files. I fixed this creating symbolic links in /usr/include to
/usr/src/linux/include. Now the compiler can't find some libs, and the
configure scripts of some sources can't find a C++ compiler, although I have
gcc installed and I think it has one built-in. My system is Conectiva Linux, a
RedHat 5.x package with a couple of doc files in Spanish... Maybe I should
supply more information, but I don't know exactly what...
Thanks in advance,
--
Jeremías Galletti
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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