Download location (HTTP): http://www.qmail.org/qmail-1.03.tar.gz Download location (FTP): Version used: 1.03 Package size: 225 KB Estimated Disk space required: 4.6 MB |
Additional downloads: qmail errno patch |
The qmail package contains Dan Bernstein's Mail Transport Agent (MTA). qmail provides local and remote mail delivery/relaying.
qmail needs certain user and group account to be added before installation of the software. Add the users and groups with the following commands:
mkdir /var/qmail && groupadd nofiles && useradd -g nofiles -d /var/qmail/alias alias && useradd -g nofiles -d /var/qmail qmaild && useradd -g nofiles -d /var/qmail qmaill && useradd -g nofiles -d /var/qmail qmailp && groupadd qmail && useradd -g qmail -d /var/qmail qmailq && useradd -g qmail -d /var/qmail qmailr && useradd -g qmail -d /var/qmail qmails |
Install qmail by running the following commands:
patch -Np1 -i ../qmail-1.03.errno.patch &&
make setup check &&
./config-fast `hostname` &&
cd /var/qmail &&
touch .qmail-postmaster .qmail-mailer-daemon .qmail-root &&
chmod 644 .qmail-* &&
ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail &&
mv /var/qmail/boot/home /var/qmail/rc &&
for mandir in 1 5 7 8; do mv /var/qmail/man/man$mandir/* \
/usr/man/man$mandir; done &&
rm -rf /var/qmail/man |
/etc/inetd.conf and boot scripts
If inetd is used, the following command will add the qmaild entry to /etc/inetd.conf:
echo "smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env \ tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd" >> /etc/inetd.conf |
If xinetd is used, the following command will add the qmaild entry to /etc/xinetd.conf:
cat >> /etc/xinetd.conf << "EOF"
service smtp
{
disable = no
identifier = smtp-local
socket_type = stream
protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = qmaild
server = /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env
server_args = /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
env = RELAYCLIENT=
only_from = 127.0.0.1
log_on_failture += USERID
}
EOF |
To automate the running of qmail, use following command to create the init.d script:
cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail << "EOF" #!/bin/sh # Begin $rc_base/init.d/qmail # Based on sysklogd script from LFS-3.1 and earlier. # Rewritten by Gerard Beekmans - [email protected] source /etc/sysconfig/rc source $rc_functions case "$1" in start) echo "Starting Qmail..." /var/qmail/rc & ;; stop) echo "Stopping Qmail..." killall qmail-send ;; restart) $0 stop sleep 1 $0 start ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" exit 1 ;; esac # End $rc_base/init.d/qmail EOF chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail |
Create the symbolic links to this file in the relevant rc.d directory with the following commands:
cd /etc/rc.d/init.d && ln -sf ../init.d/qmail ../rc0.d/K25qmail && ln -sf ../init.d/qmail ../rc1.d/K25qmail && ln -sf ../init.d/qmail ../rc2.d/K25qmail && ln -sf ../init.d/qmail ../rc3.d/S35qmail && ln -sf ../init.d/qmail ../rc4.d/S35qmail && ln -sf ../init.d/qmail ../rc5.d/S35qmail && ln -sf ../init.d/qmail ../rc6.d/K25qmail |
Configuration information for some commonly used MUAs can be found in the /var/qmail/doc/INSTALL.mbox file. Most MUAs can be configured to use qmail Mailbox format buy putting the following in ~/.profile:
MAIL=$HOME/Mailbox; export MAIL |
The qmail package contains bouncesaying, condredirect, except, forward, maildir2mbox, maildirmake, maildirwatch, mailsubj, preline, qbiff, qreceipt, qmail-clean, qmail-inject, qmail-local, qmail-pop3d, qmail-popup, qmail-qstat, qmail-send, qmail-smtpd and qmail-start.
bouncesaying processes, possibly bouncing, incoming messages.
condredirect processes, possibly redirecting incoming messages.
except reverses the exit code of a program.
forward forwards new mail to one or more addresses.
maildir2mbox moves current email from an maildir-format directory to an mbox-format file.
maildirmake create a maildir format directory for incoming mail.
maildirwatch watches a users maildir and prints a new mail summary every 30 seconds.
mailsubj sends a mail message with a subject supplied on the command line. The body of the message is read from standard input.
preline prepends lines to a message.
qbiff announces new mail as soon as it arrives.
qreceipt responds to delivery notice requests.
qmail-clean cleans up the queue directory.
qmail-inject preprocesses and sends a mail message.
qmail-local delivers or forwards mail messages.
qmail-pop3d accesses users' pop3 mail accounts.
qmail-popup reads pop3 usernames and passwords.
qmail-qstat summarizes mail queue statistics.
qmail-send delivers mail from the message queue.
qmail-smtpd receives mail via SMTP.
qmail-start enables mail delivery services, spawning qmail-send, qmail-lspawn, qmail-rspawn, and qmail-clean.