To qmail gooroos out there

[Gregory Nowak]

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First, do a telnet to localhost port 25, and see if qmail comes up. If
it doesn't, then it isn't running, let me know if you need help
determining why this is.

Assuming that qmail is running, I will assume that you have followed
life with qmail's recommendations, and are running qmail via
daemontools, and ucspi-tcp.

Check that you have a file called /etc/tcp.smtp, and that it contains the
following:

127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""

If you don't have a /etc/tcp.smtp file, or if it doesn't have a line
like the above, create that file/edit it, and then run:

qmailctl cdb

Next, you want to make sure that you have a
/var/qmail/control/rcpthosts file, and that it is empty.

Next, edit /var/qmail/control/locals, and add the line:

localhost

Restart qmail, and give things a try again. Also note that
/var/log/maillog is your best friend. Note that I haven't had to
configure qmail for a stand-alone machine, so the instructions I gave
are based only on my knowledge of qmail's configuration, and not on
actual experience configuring it for a dial-up machine without a
domain.

Also, you didn't build qmail from source by hand, did you? There is a
debian package that will grab all the sources for you, build and
configure them for you as well. It's not fool-proof, but I'd say it
does a good job.

If you still have problems, then seeing all your files in
/var/qmail/control/, as well as relevant output from /var/log/maillog
will help.

Greg


On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:06:43PM +0200, Krister Ekstrom wrote:
> Hi  speakup,
> 
>   Once again i try setting up qmail on my debian machine. I have read
>   the Life with qmail guide, but either i must be stupid or there's
>   something else wrong because i fail to understand how to make qmail
>   correctly send mail from my machine via a smarthost, that is my isps
>   smtp server. When i try getting mail with fetchmail, i can see that
>   i have mail but it never gets transfered to me. the error message i
>   get is: "connection to localhost failed. Transaction error while
>   getting mail from pop3.bredband.netfetchmail: query status=10
>   (smtp)" or something to that effect. One possible reason for failing
>   to send is that my email address is not the one of my user account,
>   (i don't have my own domain)
>   but rather crisekstrom at bredband.net. This shouldn't seem to matter
>   but does anyway or so it seems.
>   What obvious things have i missed?
>   Thanks in advance!
> 
> --
> /Krister
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