well, if you have Redhat Linux like I do here has been my experience.
I installed QMail using the tarball, running through each step carefully by
hand, and with help from members on this list, finally got it to work. I
could send mail out (unlike you) but I couldn't recieve remote email. I was
sure that I had done something wrong with the remove sendmail steps since my
system did not have things configured exactly as described in the INSTALL,
and I wasn't that confident in my guesses.
So last night I took down the RPM's (a whole bunch of them, and set the
whole thing up, deleting my qmail install, rpm'ing the src, then rpming the
required preinstall stuff, and finally rpming qmail).
When I rebooted it worked and was very different. There was a whole new
qmail process running when I did ps-aux, there was no /var/qmail/rc file at
all, there was a whole slew of extra .qmail-*** files in my alias folder,
and lo and behold it worked, in particular, I could now send myself mail
from the outside world.
So my feeling is that Redhat systems are sufficiently different from the
norm that their own unique install of QMail is required and the only way to
get that right now, is by using RPM's.
Alex Miller
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gene Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 1:25 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Newbie Question - Please Read!
>
>
> 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
>
> ___
> 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)
> ---
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
