Re: installing qmail on a free mail server
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, prev. sysadmin in my company left for me a server of free mail that uses sendmail ( Doh! ) The server has ~30k of users soo this is the right place for the qmail. the 1[Q] is: is there any patches I should apply. qmail works fine for me right out of the box. Others have added/changed functionality to suit their needs. Browse www.qmail.org for descriptions of the most popular patches. I simply can`t think of any decent strategy I should follow ... If you've never run qmail before, you should set it up on a test system. Once you've got it behaving there, you can start migrating it to the production system. You can run both qmail and sendmail on the system during the swap. Leave sendmail in /usr/lib/sendmail and run qmail-smtp on a non-standard port. Once that's working, you can configure qmail to handle the "sending" side by pointing /usr/lib/sendmail at /var/qmail/bin/sendmail. Complete the transition by killing the sendmail daemon and switching qmail-smtpd to port 25. Continue to run "sendmail -q" periodically until the sendmail queue is flushed. You should practice this on your test system to make sure things will go smoothly, especially delivering to the right place in the right format and handling .forward files. the server is already listed at ORBS hehe I do what to fix that situation and make it more difficult for spummers to use the server ... any advises? qmail disables relaying by default. You can turn it back on for selected hosts, if necessary. Once qmail-smtpd is handling port 25, you can verify that relaying is disabled and petition the ORBS people to remove your server from their list. the 2[Q] is: has anybody managed to launch imp using qmail? Never heard of it. -Dave
Re: installing qmail on a free mail server
Dave Sill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes on 1 March 1999 at 12:10:20 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: qmail disables relaying by default. You can turn it back on for selected hosts, if necessary. Once qmail-smtpd is handling port 25, you can verify that relaying is disabled and petition the ORBS people to remove your server from their list. "By default" is sufficiently slippery that I want to sidestep that issue. Since this is an area people seem to have trouble with (at least they ask frequently), let me try some proactive relaying prevention :-). Qmail prevents relaying if and only if the file control/rcpthosts exists (this file should contain the list of domains that your server should accept email for delivery to). If all locally-originated email is sent via qmail-inject (including via the qmail sendmail wrapper), that's all you need to do. However, if some mail user agents submit their mail via SMTP, and always if you have POP users, you need to turn relaying on selectively for the IP addresses that those users come from. This process is described in FAQ 5.4. -- David Dyer-Bennet [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ddb.com/~ddb (photos, sf) Minicon: http://www.mnstf.org/minicon http://ouroboros.demesne.com/ The Ouroboros Bookworms Join the 20th century before it's too late!
installing qmail on a free mail server
Hi, prev. sysadmin in my company left for me a server of free mail that uses sendmail ( Doh! ) The server has ~30k of users soo this is the right place for the qmail. the 1[Q] is: is there any patches I should apply. I simply can`t think of any decent strategy I should follow ... the server is already listed at ORBS hehe I do what to fix that situation and make it more difficult for spummers to use the server ... any advises? the 2[Q] is: has anybody managed to launch imp using qmail? thanx Pashah -- http://www.spb.sitek.net/~pashah/public-key-0x97739141.pgp
