Zeno Davatz writes: > So you also suggest not using the binaries from the Debian packages > for my Mail-setup?
This is my recommendation for the easiest and best vpopmail setup on Debian. This is from memory, so I might be missing something: * Add Gerrit Pape's repository to your apt sources list. Install the qmail package. This will install qmail, including the necessary uids and gids: http://smarden.org/pape/Debian/qmail.html * Install the qmail-run package. This will setup qmail as the mail transfer agent under daemontools. This will uninstall exim or whatever MTA you already have installed. * Change the /var/qmail/rc file to deliver to Maildir. This will break mail for local users and cause the mail system not to work as it would on a standard Debian system. The "mail" program, for example, does not work with Maildir. But for a POP toaster using vpopmail, this doesn't really matter. The file should look like this: #!/bin/sh exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start ./Maildir/ * By default, the qmail-run package sets up qmail to log to syslog, as is standard for Debian. However, the daemontools method (as setup by qmail-conf) is much better, in my opinion. Fix the qmail-send and qmail-smtpd services to do this. qmail-smtpd may already be setup this way. In the log directory of the service directory (say /service/qmail-send/log), change main to be a symlink to the log directory, say /var/log/qmail-send. Change the run script for the log service to be as follows: #!/bin/sh exec setuidgid qmaill multilog t ./main * Install vpopmail from source. The Debian packages are pretty old and seem to be buggy, at least the last time I tried. * Change the run script for qmail-smtpd (/service/qmail-smtpd/run) to use vpopmail. The tcp.smtp.cdb file needs to point to the one in the vpopmail home directory (ex. /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb). This step makes POP-before-SMTP work. * Install a qmail-pop3d service. The easiest way to do this is qmail-conf. You could use qmail-conf to redo all the qmail services, but it is easier to stick with the ones that qmail-run sets up: http://www.din.or.jp/~ushijima/qmail-conf.html * Allow incoming connections to pop3d. By default, it does not allow any connections. There is an add-client script in /var/qmail/service/qmail-pop3d that can be used. To simply allow connections from everywhere, create an empty tcp file and run the Makefile. You will need to run the Makefile after using add-client. * Change the qmail-pop3d run script to use vpopmail. It needs to use vchkpw as the checkpassword program. Change this to your vchkpw program (ex. /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw). The parameter to be changed is the second parameter to qmail-popup. * Restart all of the services: svc -t /service/qmail-* * You can make things easier if you add /var/qmail/bin and the vpopmail bin directory to root's PATH. -- David Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://david.acz.org/
