I just tried this howto. It is the best one yet for helping understand
this system. But, I still can't get smtp to work. That is if I send from
another place to my system with qmail, it is bouced back. I get this
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Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.surfup.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Sorry. Although I'm listed as a best-preference MX or A for that host,
it isn't in my control/locals file, so I don't treat it as local. (#5.4.6)
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I feel like I'm getting somewhere with this. But, I have no idea how I'm
going to get POP mail working.
- gene
At 1:06 AM -0400 6/19/99, Dale Miracle wrote:
>> Kevin King wrote:
>>
>> I recently got my RH Linux box working wtith Qmail (with a huge amount
>> of help from Dave Sill). When I installed Qmail setup the following
>> files as such:
>>
>
>I found this web site tonight that might help some people. I am also
>trying to setup qmail my self because sendmail's virtual mail setup is
>EVIL..I hate m4 and makemap <shudder>. Any how here is the link
>http://www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html
>
>I found it while searching through many howto's and web pages trying to
>make sense of the hundreds of interpretations of the qmail doc's. I
>read it all the way through and it sounds pretty good...to bad I found
>it at 1 am :( I have been staring at this monitor of mine for over 3
>hours now. I think I am just going to remove what I have and install
>qmail fresh tomorrow.
>I hope this help's, I know it made more sense to me...
> Later,
>--
>
>Dale Miracle
> System Administrator
> Teoi Net
