I installed on Redhat5.2 (with php and modperl): David Summer's qmail-1.03-9.src.rpm TCP-server ucspi-tcp-0.84.tar.gz imap-4.6.BETA and a control script to start|stop|status|restart from http://www.sfu.ca/~yzhang/linux/qmail/sample-qmail (fixed a minor typo) status says: running on +-30 pids tcpserver 25 answers ESMTP (no qmail, sendmail here) according to netstat qmail-smtpd is listening on port 25 removed sendmail but it aint doing Anything no processes (ps) visible cant find a pidfile,.. I went through some manuals but I dont know where to look further... thx, f_3