[newcomer] Problems installing Qmail+VMailMgr+Courier-Imap

[Martin A. Langhoff]

hello,

I've come across HOWO recently added to the linux HOWTO's, written
by Dan Kuykendall, titled "Qmail VMailMgr and Courier-ImapHOWTO". This
HOWTO guided me though the prep/compile/install for
- ucspi-tcp
- daemontools
- supervise-scripts
- qmail
- vmailmgr
- courier-imap

 and a few config changes, like add a user and add a virtualhosts
file to add users to a test domain virtualhost. Ah, of course, I did
remove sendmail and friends before starting.

And then restarted.

[ a little background on the machine: it's an old RH5.1 upgraded to
RH.6.1, running named (from CD rpms), Samba (built from src) and MySQL
(from SRPMs) and Apache+mod_perl (built from src). I do have lots of
Perl modules, but don't think it matters. ]

Well, now nothing's running as it should. It's an internal test
server,  so I don't really mind that syslog is taking 50% of cpu time.
:) But I guess that signals that something's running wrong, don't you?

Now, the symptoms I could gather:
- syslogd taking 50% processor time
- command line utilities like mail / sendmail are there and seem
to work, but `mail root` or `sendmail root` and then typing `mail` to
see my own msg did not work. Maybe I'm expecting something to work that
won't ever work when virtualizing email accounts?
- tried to connect to the imap server from the very same box,
with NN4.x under GNOME and got an eternal wait.
- tried to connect to the pop server from the very same box,
with NN4.x under GNOME and got an eternal wait.

As you can read, I'm quite new to this software, and I'm looking for
clues to follow. Could someone point me in the right direction? The aim
of all this is to get qmail to work, and then virtual domain accounts to
work also over imap. Then. with the aid of an opensource imap webmail
interface, I'll be out with Pinky and The Brain to conquer the world :)

Thanks!



martin
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Re: [newcomer] Problems installing Qmail+VMailMgr+Courier-Imap

[Peter van Dijk]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 03:04:54PM -0300, Martin A. Langhoff wrote:
[snip]
 Now, the symptoms I could gather:
 - syslogd taking 50% processor time

syslog sucks. daemontools (which you installed) come with multilog which
does a far better job.

 - command line utilities like mail / sendmail are there and seem
 to work, but `mail root` or `sendmail root` and then typing `mail` to
 see my own msg did not work. Maybe I'm expecting something to work that
 won't ever work when virtualizing email accounts?

qmail does not and will not ever deliver to root. Check ~alias for where
this mail went, or check the logfiles.

Greetz, Peter.
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problems installing qmail

[yair linux]

Hello 
I'm installing Qmail 1.03 on Red Hat 6.0 
I was told to put: csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc ' in my boot script.
Where is the exact place to put this command ?
I'm afraid all what I tried failed - qmail doesn't start when the system
is going up.
Thanks.
 

Re: problems installing qmail

[mark]

Hi,

Have a look in /etc/rc.d/init.d/. Here is where all your startup scripts are
housed. In that directory you must create a script (with the correct
permissions etc) called qmail or something to that effect.

Clue : Have a look at some other scripts there to get an idea. I used ssh
and changed it to start qmail.

Once you have created the file enter the following:

chkconfig --add qmail
chkconfig --level qmail 5 on
chkconfig --level qmail 3 on

If the script is setup correcetly you should be able to enter the following
:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail start  (which will start qmail)
/etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail stop (which will stop qmail)

If you are still struggling then mail me back.
I'll send you a copy of my start script and also give you more detailed
instructions on how to enter the script in its different run levels.

Cheers
Mark