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This text was originally taken from the qmail INSTALL file that you
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will find in /var/qmail/doc/. In addition to INSTALL, there are many
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other potentially important qmail documents there.
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As with all ports, the ports maintainer (me!) makes NO WARRANTIES of
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any kind: expressed, implied, or other; about the reliability or
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security of this package. Any damage or problems derived from its
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usage or related to it are neither my responsibility nor the software
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author's. This package is provided AS IS.
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Although I am probably sounding cold and harsh, believe me: qmail is
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one of the most reliable and easy-to-use softwares around. However,
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this also is NOT a WARRANTY. It is just an opinion. :)
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The qmail port will normally install into /var/qmail/. If you changed
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this to /usr/local/, then please note that the docs have been
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installed into /usr/local/share/doc/qmail/ (as opposed to
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/usr/local/doc/).
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If you wish to rerun the automatic configuration utility, do:
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# cd /var/qmail/configure ; ./config
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If you are upgrading from a previous version of qmail, you should read
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/var/qmail/doc/UPGRADE and follow all the steps after #6.
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[from /var/qmail/doc/INSTALL]
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SAVE COPIES OF YOUR OUTGOING MAIL! Like any other piece of software (and
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information generally), the qmail system comes with NO WARRANTY. It's
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much more secure and reliable than sendmail, but that's not saying much.
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[pre-build instructions elided]
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To create /var/qmail and configure qmail (won't interfere with sendmail):
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[#1 - #3 elided]
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4. Read INSTALL.ctl and FAQ. Minimal survival command:
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# ./config
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[The "minimal" command has already been performed.]
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5. Read INSTALL.alias. Minimal survival command:
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# (cd ~alias; touch .qmail-postmaster .qmail-mailer-daemon .qmail-root)
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# chmod 644 ~alias/.qmail*
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[The "minimal" command has already been performed.]
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6. Read INSTALL.mbox and INSTALL.vsm.
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7. Read INSTALL.maildir.
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8. Copy /var/qmail/boot/home (or proc) to /var/qmail/rc.
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[When you do this, qmail will be started automatically the next time
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you boot. This is because the command
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``ln -s /var/qmail/rc /usr/local/etc/rc.d'' has been executed. There
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is a number of sample bootfiles provided. Not all of them will work.]
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To test qmail deliveries (won't interfere with sendmail):
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9. Enable deliveries of messages injected into qmail:
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# csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &'
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10. Read TEST.deliver.
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To upgrade from sendmail to qmail:
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11. Read SENDMAIL. This is what your users will want to know about the
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switch from sendmail to qmail.
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12. Read REMOVE.sendmail. You must remove sendmail before installing
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qmail.
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[Do not disable sendmail as instructed in REMOVE.sendmail step #1.
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Instead, change the sendmail_enable line in /etc/rc.conf to read
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sendmail_enable="NO"
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]
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13. Read REMOVE.binmail.
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14. Add
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csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &'
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to your boot scripts, so that the qmail daemons are restarted
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whenever your system reboots. Make sure you include the &.
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[Do not do this. Unless you remove the symlink
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/usr/local/etc/rc.d/qmail.sh, the script /var/qmail/rc will be run
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everytime you boot. See also "local_startup" in /etc/rc.conf.]
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15. Make qmail's ``sendmail'' wrapper available to MUAs:
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# ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail
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# ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
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/usr/sbin might not exist on your system.
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16. Set up qmail-smtpd in /etc/inetd.conf (all on one line):
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smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env
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tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
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[A freshly-updated /etc/inetd.conf will have a sample qmail entry that
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you can simply uncomment.]
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17. Reboot. (Or kill -HUP your inetd and make sure the qmail daemons
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are running.)
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18. Read TEST.receive.
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That's it! To report success:
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% ( echo 'First M. Last'; cat /var/qmail/doc/SYSDEPS ) \
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| mail djb-qst@cr.yp.to
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Replace First M. Last with your name.
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[Note that "cat `cat SYSDEPS`" has changed to "cat /var/qmail/doc/SYSDEPS"]
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If you have questions about qmail, join the qmail mailing list; see
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http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html.
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