QMAIL... installation and configuration help! 1

[linuxtricks]

I would like to replace my sendmail with Qmail on my Redhat 6.1 machine... but am very new to Qmail.<br><br>Would anyone know where I could possibly find <b><font color=red>step by step</font></b> installation instructions for QMail?&nbsp;&nbsp;- and I don't mean... go to qmail.org.<br><br>I really would like to find &quot;step by step&quot;, &quot;line for line&quot; - HELP!<br><br>Thanks! <p> <br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br><i>try not!</i><br>
<i>do... or do not. there is no try!</i>

 

[AndyBo]

OK, I'm not going to send you to qmail.org, but I will send you to <A HREF="

http://qmail.plig.org/top.html#userdoc"

TARGET="_new">

http://qmail.plig.org/top.html#userdoc</A><br><br>Click

on the &quot;Life with qmail&quot; section.&nbsp;&nbsp;This will give you what you want.&nbsp;&nbsp;I've recently been using this to set up a new qmail installation, and it had me up and running in no time. <p> <br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>--<br>
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[linuxtricks]

<b><font color=red>AndyBo!</font></b><br><br>Thanks again for your help.&nbsp;&nbsp;I'll be sure to print out the pages and read up!<br><br>One thing though...<br>I use a tremendous amount of aliases (/etc/aliases) for sendmail.<br>i.e. sending an email to one address actually goes to about 5000 people.<br><br>Does QMail use the aliases file like sendmail does?&nbsp;&nbsp;If not, what would you recommend a newbie like me do about getting this to work with QMail?&nbsp;&nbsp;I apologize in advance if this information can be found on the page you already pointed me to (I will start reading it as soon as I'm sone typing here)<br>But if it's not... can you point me to another cool page to read up on?<br><br>Thanks AndyBo! <p> <br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br><i>try not!</i><br>
<i>do... or do not. there is no try!</i>

 

[linuxtricks]

Ok.&nbsp;&nbsp;After reading through and attempting the follow the instructions on the <A HREF="

http://qmail.plig.org/top.html#userdoc"

TARGET="_new">

http://qmail.plig.org/top.html#userdoc</A>

documentation... I have successfully installed qmail.<br><br>The documentation was very clear to understand until I got to the part on <font color=red>how to incorporate your existing /etc/aliases file with qmail</font> using <i>fastforward</i>.<br>Here is what I found:<br><i>&quot;Most sendmail users will be familiar with /etc/aliases. djb's fastforward package supports everything sendmail supports in /etc/aliases, plus more. <br><br>To activate /etc/aliases, put the following in /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-default: </i><br><br><b>¦ fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb</b><br><br>The confusion comes in where...&nbsp;&nbsp;The /etc/aliases/cdb file <font color=red><b>never existed...</b></font> So I manually created it.&nbsp;&nbsp;But this is what I got when I tried to test it:<br><br>[root@host fastforward-0.51]# env DEFAULT=postmaster HOST=<i>domain.com</i> fastforward -nd /etc/aliases.cdb<br>fastforward: fatal: unable to read /etc/aliases.cdb: input/output error<br><br>I am realizing how crippled my emailing system will be without having the /etc/aliases file to work with qmail.<br><br>Can anyone please shed some light on this topic for me.&nbsp;&nbsp;I would really like to get this working!<br><br>Thanks in advance for you help!<br> <p> <br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br><i>try not!</i><br>
<i>do... or do not. there is no try!</i>

 

[MikeLacey]

Looks like you have to build the aliases.cdb file using the cdb package<br><br>You can dl it from:<br><br><A HREF="

http://cr.yp.to/cdb/install.html"

TARGET="_new">

http://cr.yp.to/cdb/install.html</A><br><br>

<p>Mike<br><a href=mailto:michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com>michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com</a><br><a href=

http://www.cargill.com/>

Cargill's Corporate Web Site</a><br>

 

[AndyBo]

Mike's right, but if you got the fastforward package from <A HREF="

http://cr.yp.to/fastforward.html"

TARGET="_new">

http://cr.yp.to/fastforward.html</A>

then you should have compiled up a program called &quot;newaliases&quot; as part of &quot;fastforward&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is a bit of a wrapper around cdb that looks for /etc/aliases and sets things up for qmail.<br><br>If newaliases doesn't seem to be working, check that you've not got sendmail still installed.&nbsp;&nbsp;sendmail also has a utility called &quot;newaliases&quot; that creates the DB aliases database. <p> <br><a href=mailto: > </a><br><a href= > </a><br>--<br>
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