[Techtalk] Qmail configuration and setup :)

[Amanda C. Clift]

Well I feel stupid now-
   I talked to my boss about it, and he said it was fine that I couldn't
recieve mail- that was the way he wanted it in the first place.  so that
was all for naught.  So now onto setting up telnet, configurng and
testing SSH, and syslog. :)
   thanks again though!  And I'm sure this will help someone out
eventually. :)
        mea

-----Original Message-----
From: Kai MacTane [mailto:kmactane at GothPunk.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 7:03 PM
To: techtalk at linuxchix.org
Subject: Re: [Techtalk] Qmail configuration and setup :)


At 11/21/01 03:07 PM , Amanda C. Clift wrote:
>    I can send email out.  I just can't seem to recieve email in. I
>thought I followed all the instructions on the Install document
provided
>with Qmail.

Have you started qmail-smtpd? What happens when you telnet to port 25 on

your mail server? (If you get "Connection refused", you don't have an
SMTP 
server (qmail-smtpd) running. If you get something like "220 
your-hostname.tld ESMTP", then qmail-smtpd is running just fine, and the

problem lies elsewhere.)

Qmail-smtpd is usually run from tcpserver -- let me know if you need
help 
setting that up.

>also, (and I know someone will kill me Ims ure about this)- I want to
>use pineon it as my email reader.  Is that a tarball somewhere? or is
it
>just something thats already installed with the kernal?

Pine has some serious security holes in it still, IIRC. Also, Pine
doesn't 
have native support for Maildirs (Qmail's default delivery mode). If
you're 
doing mbox or mail spool delivery, you can use Pine just fine, but if 
you're using Maildirs, Pine will require patching.

Pine can generally be downloaded as a tarball from the U of Wash -- try 
www.washington.edu/pine.

                                                 --Kai MacTane
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