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Re: sendmail ->qmail problems, help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Mitchell)
Sun Nov 17 16:22:31 1996
Date: 17 Nov 1996 21:17:00 -0000
From: John Mitchell <johnm@non.net>
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Cc: mmalecha@UTMEM1.UTMEM.EDU
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961117122300.8072A-100000@peanut.senie.com>
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>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com> writes:
> On Sun, 17 Nov 1996 mmalecha@UTMEM1.UTMEM.EDU wrote:
>> Prompted by report of sendmail security risk I tried to install qmail.
>> And I ran into several problems in a process. Can anyone outline the
>> procedure for the switch from sendmail to qmail?
Get the source by following www.qmail.org and read all of the documentation
*first*. The INSTALL* files have explicit instructions for building and
installing qmail and nuking sendmail. Should take a couple of hours
initially depending on how complicated your setup is.
You should check out the qmail mailing list. Also findable via
www.qmail.org.
> Qmail's receive component runs from inetd. So, after you install qmail,
> you need to take a look at the end of inetd.conf, and note that there's
> been an addition there.
Is this something that the .rpm does?
> Inetd will not reread the inetd.conf file until you do a kill -1 to the
> inetd process.
If the .rpm is making the changes to inetd.conf shouldn't it also do the
kill -HUP?
> I think you got into trouble because your mailer couldn't open the SMTP
> socket on localhost.
[...]
Why would the local mailers be opening SMTP connections on the local host?
Take care,
John
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