Hey there.  I've just been fighting w/ qmail on my RAQ3i.  I've been
trying to replace sendmail with qmail, but it just hasn't been working
(bounce messages weren't working; neither was smtp).  I sought through the
archives for an answer, but found none.  The general consensus seemed to
be that the permissions were wrong.

Turned out that was true.  Though through no fault of the installing party
(I was doing a virgin installation and it still bombed).  It also turns
out that the RAQs have an interesting quirk that causes qmail not to work.
They ship with /var set to mount with the 'nosuid' flag set.  This causes
the suid bit on qmail-queue not to work as expected, leading to the rest
of the problems.

Anyway, to fix this problem, edit /etc/fstab and remove the nosuid flag
from the /var line and run 'mount /var -o remount' to remount it without.
Voila.  It works.

Good luck and thank goodness for the archives.
seth

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