qmail startup problems

McVeigh · Posted: Wed May 29, 2002 3:18 am Post subject:

thanks for the reply, is there any docs for gentoo and qmail? I have searched but haven't found any.

The qmail sites I find don't seem to apply to gentoo :oops:

EDIT:

example I can't find the command "qmailctl"
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Nitro · Posted: Wed May 29, 2002 3:22 am Post subject:

McVeigh · Posted: Wed May 29, 2002 3:41 am Post subject:

well I found the
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-showctl
/var/qmail/bin/config-fast
commands

which seemed to setup some filesthat I do find mentioned in life w/ qmail, but how can I test it w/o a qmailctl command?
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CasimirEffect · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 12:10 am Post subject: Has this been answered yet?

I've done a lot of serching and have only found happy people who are smarter than I am. Are there any Gentoo specific instructions for qmail?
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rac · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 12:18 am Post subject: Re: Has this been answered yet?

CasimirEffect · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 12:24 am Post subject: Doh!

I missed that becaused I emerged a lot of things at once. Thanks! It seems to be working now!
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Woland · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:39 am Post subject:

Just as a warning to others: do not emerge qmail, and then just follow the instruction in the Life with Qmail book to install, without following the instructions at the end of the qmail e-build:

tgoodaire · Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:57 am Post subject: Qmail problems

I emerged qmail, followed the instructions to make the symlinks, and then followed through the "Life with Qmail" page. I had some problems with permissions on files and directories, but just about everything is working now. Oh yeah. There was no /var/qmail/alias/ directory created from the ebuild either. Perhaps that's something that should be fixed.

The one problem that I'm still having is that local mail is delivered nicely to ~/Mail/inbox, but it doesn't show up in KMail. Should I be delivering to there, or should I deliver it in mbox format to /var/mail/user ?
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ventricle · Guru Joined: 04 Apr 2003 Posts: 305 Location: UK/Australia

I have emerged qmail, and I have run the required commands (as listed at the end of the emerge), however I still don't have the qmailctl commant - which is listed in the life with qmail doc.?
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kashani · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 10:44 pm Post subject: qmailctl

qmailctl is a script published on lifewithqmail and is not part of the qmail package. You can copy and install it from here.

http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#start-qmail

You'll need to scroll down a bit to find it. I installed because that's what I normally use to check the queue, but it'll need some modification on Gentoo to get all the functionality it normally has.

kashani
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bitzer · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 3:57 pm Post subject:

For what it's worth, and for anyone who stumbles upon this thread from searching in the future, this page was linked to off of qmail.org. Would seem to fill the request for "Gentoo Specific Instructions," though I haven't tried them myself:

http://www.skunkworx.org/guides/QmailOnGentoo.txt
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tecknojunky · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 4:50 am Post subject: