QMail help
I'm looking for some QMail help. I'm not particularly experienced with QMail and assumed it wouldn't be too difficult to figure out since it's supposed to be so much like Sendmail. I was wrong. At this point, I can't get a simple alias to work right and I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction here. I have an alias for root that works fine. That's controlled by the file /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root and mail to root gets forwarded without a problem. I have an alias for commentsarchive. That's controlled by the file /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-commentsarchive and any mail to that address gets bounced with "Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. vpopmail (#5.1.1)" The permissions on both files are identical. I swear I had the new one working once, and it stopped without me changing anything. If I run the qmail-getpw program on the commentsarchive address, it correctly resolves to /var/qmail/alias-commentsarchive too. Anyway, if this sounds familiar to anyone, I'd appreciate a pointer. And if anyone knows a good tutorial for QMail, that would be nice too. It seems I can never find useful documentation for djb code. -N ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Qmail Help
I am guessing that there are many on the list that are far more knowledgeable about qmail than I. Qmail does not do deferal notices like sendmail does. When someone sends an e-mail and it goes through sendmail, sendmail tries to send it, but it lets you know (by default) at four hours and five days that it hasn't been delivered yet, and then after 7 days, it gives up. With Qmail, it sits in the queue for a week before gicing up. It tells you that it gives up, but byu then, the mail has been sitting around for a week. I know that you can modify the queuelifetime, but that just kills the message after a certain amount of time. What I want it to do is to notify the sender after a few hours and a few days if it has not been sent. Does anyone know how to do this? TIA, Kenny P.S. Switching to Sendmail is not a viable option at this point. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: QMail help
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 12:20 pm, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: > I'm looking for some QMail help. I'm not particularly experienced with > QMail and assumed it wouldn't be too difficult to figure out since it's > supposed to be so much like Sendmail. I was wrong. So after spending so much time frustrated over this, I realized the forward files I was creating were being used for the machine's name, not the domain name (ie mail.test.com instead of test.com) and they worked fine for me only from a command prompt mail command. test.com email aliases are handled by vpopmail instead and that's where I have to go to create the aliases I want. > Anyway, if this sounds familiar to anyone, I'd appreciate a pointer. And > if anyone knows a good tutorial for QMail, that would be nice too. It > seems I can never find useful documentation for djb code. I would still love some QMail help in general form though if anyone has any good links to share. -N ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
Re: QMail help
If you have not seen it yet go to http://www.qmail.org/ for information
on QMail. Another very useful site is http://www.lifewithqmail.org/.
I switched from QMail to Postfix several years ago but may still
remember enough to help if you get stuck.
Tom
Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
On Wednesday 05 July 2006 12:20 pm, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
I'm looking for some QMail help. I'm not particularly experienced with
QMail and assumed it wouldn't be too difficult to figure out since it's
supposed to be so much like Sendmail. I was wrong.
So after spending so much time frustrated over this, I realized the forward
files I was creating were being used for the machine's name, not the domain
name (ie mail.test.com instead of test.com) and they worked fine for me only
from a command prompt mail command. test.com email aliases are handled by
vpopmail instead and that's where I have to go to create the aliases I want.
Anyway, if this sounds familiar to anyone, I'd appreciate a pointer. And
if anyone knows a good tutorial for QMail, that would be nice too. It
seems I can never find useful documentation for djb code.
I would still love some QMail help in general form though if anyone has any
good links to share.
-N
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Re: QMail help
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 02:33:08PM -0400, Tom Faska wrote: > If you have not seen it yet go to http://www.qmail.org/ for information > on QMail. Another very useful site is http://www.lifewithqmail.org/. > > I switched from QMail to Postfix several years ago but may still > remember enough to help if you get stuck. There's also a qmail newsgroup (alt.comp.mail.qmail) that is reasonably good, and of course a qmail mailing list if you want to expose yourself to it :) We use qmail predominantly here; I may also be able to help if needed. Although I've hacked on it so much (including replacing the qmail-smtpd portion with one written from scratch) I may no longer have the right perspective. mm ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
