topic Re: qmail server in Operating System - Linux

qmail server

rmedidi — Mon, 08 May 2006 23:12:32 GMT

Hi all

Can u let me know how to get every necessarry services to be autometically running after start up of qmail server.

Please guide me how to do this.

Re: qmail server

Vipulinux — Tue, 09 May 2006 04:03:37 GMT

Hi

Once you start qmail, you can do a telnet localhost 25 on the server to see if the mail server is accepting connections.

also you can do :
netstat -an | grep 25

Cheers
Vipul

Re: qmail server

Tim Clarke — Wed, 10 May 2006 05:03:12 GMT

Which services? The qmail-send, qmail-smtp and qmail-pop3 service? These should be controlled by the "service" monitor and started by the /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail script (I attach a copy). I found how to do all this from http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ and from http://www.qmail.org/ (this last asks you to select a local mirror first).

Good luck!

Tim Clarke

Re: qmail server

Colin Topliss — Sat, 20 May 2006 18:11:42 GMT

Ahhh. QMail fun.

Well, we need some answers to some questions:

HOW was QMail installed.
- was it pre-built?
- did you pull the code and compile?
- did you pull the associated dameon tools code and compile that too?

The start script won't work without the daemon tools being downloaded and compiled. When I tried that I had some errors during compilation - I ended up not using them in the end. How you get around the problem really depends on which Linux distributiuon you are using (I ended up writing my own start script).

Regards

Colin