Hi, I'm new to qmail and one year old in linux. I'm trying to set up a mail
server and having problems. I want to use my slackware 7.1 linux as a local
mail server for a small LAN; maybe eventualy for an external domain later.
I want clients to use their Win Outlook to retrieve mail, so I should be
able to send a mail to my main user accound and retrieve it from the same or
different workstations, but it doesn't work.
When I send the message it looks like it works, it doesn't error out or
anything. But when I telnet into my linux box, I can't find the email
anywhere.
I had a heck of a time shuffling thru the directions/installation documents.
It didn't seem very clear, but it was probably me.
I'm using the ./Maildir method.
My .qmail file is:
./Maildir/
My rc is:
#!/bin/sh
# Using splogger to send the log through syslog.
# Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mailbox by default.
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail
there is nothing in my /var/qmail/users directory. From what I could make
out, there should be an assign file in there but I'm not clear on the
format. I tried to use the command qmail-pw2u but it just hangs up and does
nothing, I have to hit the Control-C to stop it. Am I using it wrong? From
what I read it should take your /etc/psswd file and make an assign file
under /var/qmail/users, but it doesn't. Another thing, my main user account
has 2 uppercase letters, so I tried using the -u option, but nothing again.
I believe I have all the daemons running:
alita:/var/qmail# ps aux | grep qmail
qmails 115 0.0 0.3 1096 388 ? S 20:24 0:00 qmail-send
qmaill 120 0.0 0.3 1068 412 ? S 20:24 0:00 splogger
qmail
root 121 0.0 0.2 1056 336 ? S 20:24 0:00 qmail-lspawn
./Ma
qmailr 122 0.0 0.2 1056 328 ? S 20:24 0:00 qmail-rspawn
qmailq 123 0.0 0.2 1048 348 ? S 20:24 0:00 qmail-clean
root 394 0.0 0.2 1072 308 pts/1 S 21:38 0:00
/var/qmail/bin/qm
root 508 0.0 0.3 1164 412 pts/0 S 22:24 0:00 grep qmail
I didn't instal the anti-spamming package or the daemontools since it's a
very small LAN. I'm using inetd instead of ucspi-tcp.
I wasn't sure if I need the POP3 thing, but I installed it anyways since I
notice the properties on my windows mail server account has POP indicated.
I put in my inetd too, just like the documentation said.
Before I installed the POP3, I created a dummy account (flapjack) and sent
some mail to it thru the win workstation. It showed up in the ~/Maildir/new
dir. I was excited for a moment. I tried another and it worked too. But I
could never retrieve mail from the qmail server, that's why I thought I
needed to install POP3. Now I can't send anything to the dummy account, I
took a step back. Frustrated, I found this mailing list since I depleted my
HOW-TO documentation.
Here is the bottom portion of my /var/logs/messages file:
Sep 19 22:26:58 alita gnu-pop3d[511]: User 'flapjack' logged in with mailbox
'/d
ev/null'
Sep 19 22:26:58 alita gnu-pop3d[511]: Session ended for user: flapjack
Sep 19 22:31:59 alita gnu-pop3d[526]: connect from 192.168.0.112
Sep 19 22:31:59 alita gnu-pop3d[526]: Incoming connection opened
Sep 19 22:31:59 alita gnu-pop3d[526]: User 'flapjack' logged in with mailbox
'/d
ev/null'
Sep 19 22:31:59 alita gnu-pop3d[526]: Session ended for user: flapjack
Sep 19 22:35:43 alita qmail: 969417343.977697 starting delivery 28: msg
287124 t
o local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sep 19 22:35:43 alita qmail: 969417343.977842 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
Sep 19 22:35:43 alita qmail: 969417343.987402 delivery 28: deferral:
Uh-oh:_home
_directory_is_writable._(#4.7.0)/
Sep 19 22:35:43 alita qmail: 969417343.987591 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
Sep 19 22:37:01 alita gnu-pop3d[531]: connect from 192.168.0.112
Sep 19 22:37:01 alita gnu-pop3d[531]: Incoming connection opened
Sep 19 22:37:01 alita gnu-pop3d[531]: User 'flapjack' logged in with mailbox
'/d
ev/null'
Sep 19 22:37:01 alita gnu-pop3d[531]: Session ended for user: flapjack
Sep 19 22:40:32 alita su[536]: - pts/0 DillWeed-root
Sep 19 22:40:35 alita su[537]: + pts/0 DillWeed-root
Sep 19 22:41:21 alita gnu-pop3d[541]: connect from 192.168.0.112
Sep 19 22:41:21 alita gnu-pop3d[541]: Incoming connection opened
Sep 19 22:41:21 alita gnu-pop3d[541]: User 'flapjack' logged in with mailbox
'/d
ev/null'
Sep 19 22:41:21 alita gnu-pop3d[541]: Session ended for user: flapjack
alita:/var/log#
You guys seem like you know what this is all about, could you please help
me? Any ideas?
Jim
