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Re: sendmail ->qmail problems, help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wierdl Mate)
Tue Nov 19 12:27:53 1996
To: mmalecha@utmem1.utmem.edu
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 18 Nov 1996 21:15:04 EST."
<199611190336.VAA14348@pathology.utmem.edu>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 11:24:26 -0600
From: Wierdl Mate <matyi@wierdlmpc.msci.memphis.edu>
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> In <199611181542.KAA29446@redhat.com>, on 11/18/96 at 09:43 AM,
> Wierdl Mate <matyi@wierdlmpc.msci.memphis.edu> said:
>
> >> Here what to do to make qmail work:
>
> Thanks a lot Mate, your hint were _very_ helpfull. I am almost there, but
> not quite. I had additional small problems with installation. /config/me
> did not get created, I had to enter it by hand, I entered my domain name
> there. Is there soemthing else I need to enter in me file?
Nope, just the fully qualified D name has to be put in
/var/qmail/control/me (I hope you did not mean "config" instead of
"control").
> Also install
> script from qmail-0.92-1.i386.rmp did a little bit of a mess with adding
> some qmail users. I had to edit /etc/passwd by hand.
Unfortunately, qmail-0.92-1.*.rmp repeated the problem in qmail-0.91-1.i386.rmp. There
is a (repeated) syntax error in qmail-0.92-1.src.rmp (used to create
the .rpm) which caused problems in /etc/passwd, /etc/group, etc. The
error is in the spec file which repeatedly start a conditional like
if [ `grep "^qmaild" /etc/passwd` ]; then
echo "qmail already in /etc/passwd, no need to add."
else
The problem is that `grep "^qmaild" /etc/passwd` has to be (double) quoted
otherwise it is not treated as a string. The correct line is
if [ -n "`grep "^qmaild" /etc/passwd`" ]; then
But if you solved this
problem in another way, do not worry about it.
> Now I am able to
> send mail to remote domains, but have a problem with sending it to the
> localhost. Entries in /var/log/maillog say:
>
> "qmail: delivery 1 deferred: Uh-oh:_home_directory_is_writable._(#4.7.0)/"
>
> and nothing gets delivered to local mailbox.
Now, this is a known problem (I was hoping it was going to be solved
for qmail-.92.rpm). By default, qmail does not allow group
write permission on the home directories. This is for security
reasons, but it does not apply to redhat since it has user-private
groups. There are two solutions here:
1) just do
chmod g-w /home/you
(and for the other users)
2) Recompile qmail from the src.rpm. You need to set ALIAS_PATERNALISM
to 002 in conf-unusual.h . This means that change the line
#define ALIAS_PATERNALISM 022 /* stat bits not allowed in ~ and ~/.qmail */
to
#define ALIAS_PATERNALISM 002 /* stat bits not allowed in ~ and ~/.qmail */
in conf-unusual.h. After fixing the above syntax errors in the spec
file as well, just build the rpm.
Since I am not a professional, I do not want (dare) to upload an
rpm, but I hope somebody will upload a qmail-0.92-2.rpm with the
above corrections. I also recommend including a summary of what one
has to do before installing qmail (remove sendmail with the --nodeps
option) and afterward (set MAIL, MAILDROP, etc).
Mate
M\'at\'e Wierdl
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Memphis,
E-mail: matyi@moni.msci.memphis.edu
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