[SC.LUG] Qmail

[Andy Roffe]

Jonathan,

Here's the inside info.

The working recipe is based on dave sill's "life with qmail"
document. Read it first. It'll save you ages.

This has been made into an easy package called qinstall
by Baris Metin. Last time I looked the scripts had the odd minor
error this is why I suggest reading life with qmail for background.
Nothing serious, just typo's but having done this the long way
the background helped with debugging.

There are a couple of caveats:

You might want to consider mysql for the user db (this is in the
vpopmail docs)

Users will have to login with their email addresses ie: user@domain
this will make sense when you read the vpopmail docs.

It consists of:

autorespond 
daemontools
qmail 
ezmlm
ucspi-tcp
vpopmail (from  www.inter7.com - loads of qmail goodies there)
qmailadmin (inter7 again)

I usually add one or two bits of my own such as courier-imap.

FWIW : don't bother with the gui installer (but it's a mail server
- you won't have X on it right ?)

Harden the server anyway. qmail's very good but watch some of the other
bits.

Take your time. This is nice stuff but make sure you are running it
and not the other way round. There are gotcha's in there.

Once you are happy with it, I'll be surprised if you ever touch it
again.

Good luck 
Shout if you need a help.

cheers
Andy


On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 14:05, Jonathan Dwerryhouse wrote:
> Thanks Andy!
> 
> I'll try anything- i'm sure there are better ways of doing this!  The SMTP
> server will have roughly 300 - 400 clients relaying through it.  
> 
> What's your suggestion?  
> 
> Many Thanks
> 
> Jonathan Dwerryhouse
> Senior Account Manager
> C2 Internet Ltd
> Globe House
> 79 Hospital Street
> Nantwich
> Cheshire
> CW5 5RL.
> 0845 658 0020
> www.c2internet.net
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Roffe [mailto:aroffe@its-linux.co.uk] 
> Sent: 11 June 2003 13:59
> To: sc@mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [SC.LUG] Qmail
> 
> Hey Jonathan,
> 
> I have a very robust qmail server here which pre-dates smtp auth 
> (that tells you how long it's been in business!) There is a much
> easier way of doing this if you are not married to smtp auth.
> 
> This dosen't mean you have a relay just a different auth mechanism.
> 
> Couple of questions:
> What distro are you tring this on?
> How many mail users on the system?
> 
> This is not as easy as it sounds due to poor documentation on 
> the bits that really matter. However, its worth it. I suppose
> I could grudgingly share the inside info :-)
> 
> Let me know.
> 
> cheers
> Andy Roffe
> iTS-LiNUX Ltd
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 11:55, Jonathan Dwerryhouse wrote:
> > Hi there...
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I'm banging my head against the wall and would appreciate any help
> > whatsoever.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I've compiled qmail-1.03 with the qmail-smtpd-auth-0.31 patch.  For
> > password verification, checkpassword-0.90 was installed. 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Where from here?  I'm doing this primarily to build a strictly SMTP
> > relay server where users can authenticate with password/username. 
> > Where is the password database that checkpassword refers to?  How do i
> > own users so that they're allowed to relay? Even though I've compiled
> > qmail with the smtp-auth patch and installed checkpassword, if I test
> > relay through something like Outlook Express (or even telnet for that
> > matter) I'm not prompted for any kind of verification.. which makes me
> > think I'm missing out a fairly vital step!  Where's the checkpassword
> > password database stored and how to I set up users to relay and verify
> > it?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Any help, very very kindly accepted.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Jonathan Dwerryhouse
> > 
> > Senior Account Manager
> > 
> > C2 Internet Ltd
> > 
> > Globe House
> > 
> > 79 Hospital Street
> > 
> > Nantwich
> > 
> > Cheshire
> > 
> > CW5 5RL.
> > 
> > 0845 658 0020
> > 
> > www.c2internet.net
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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