Its setting up a mail server!
From past 2 days, i'm banging my head against docs for qmail to get it running on gentoo. Qmail's docs are good, infact wonderfull, but being on a non-legacy system, i need to be extra-extra carefull. I cannot afford to make mistakes as every mistake can set me back by atleast 2 hours of re-compilation. Hence, golden words for me are : "Learn from other's mistakes" :-D
Anyways, i WILL set up Qmail this week & give my family members their own address, like :
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piddi@makuchaku.whatever.i.can.get.free.com
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however big it may look!
Signing off,
11 comments:
Its actually not any fear...
but since i have never touched this "mail-admin" part, i'm a bit scared of it.
anyways...
cya
QuakuChaku
:-)
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Qmail will be delivering things at
[user]@makuchaku.homelinux.org
:-)
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Oh!
Btw, my address will be
me@makuchaku.homelinux.org
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As i said, any mistake will put me back by atleast 2 hrs...
...forgot to set/enable "maildir imap" in USE flags! [docs]Shit!!!
Compiling everything (qmail'n stuff) again!!!
Lesson learnt!
DO NOT BLINDLY INSTALL ANYTHING BEFORE rtfm
:-(
cya after 2 hrs...
me@makuchaku.homelinux.org
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Well, it wasnt so bad afterall!
After 15 minutes of recompilation/re-configuration, atleast my "maildirs" are working & i'm getting local mails via qmail-inject :-)
cheers!
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"If it can go wrong, it will go wrong!!!"
emerging mysql again to correct vpopmail error. Mysql is compiling from past 1 hour :((
me@makuchaku@homelinux.org
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SMTP is running perfect, though w/o any auth. pop3/imap is giving some auth errors, which i'll solve sooner (rather than later)!
:-)
piddi@makuchaku.homelinux.org
Ankit Says
Maku, here is a suggestion. Can you make a HOWTO for it for the 'non-legacy' system you are on ? Puhleeze. So that someone else will be saved of the headache ;-)
Waiting for it..
Oh BTW congrats :)
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Ankit Malik
http://scribbler.tk
Ankit Says
Maku, here is a suggestion. Can you make a HOWTO for it for the 'non-legacy' system you are on ? Puhleeze. So that someone else will be saved of the headache ;-)
Waiting for it..
Oh BTW congrats :)
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Ankit Malik
http://scribbler.tk
Hey ankit :-)
An ultra Qewl, to-the-point, working how-to for this "legacy" system exists.
Find it here
Cheating the portage
[quote]
I had the same problem - after digging a bit, I found that the courier-imap is built with the --without-authvchkpw configure flag. No clue why. I cheated and edited /usr/portage/net-mail/courier-imap/courier-imap-1.5.1.ebuild file to use --with-authvchkpw, and all was good.
Find it here[/quote]
Hope things start working now...
:-D
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