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In article <slrn6njl53.44.simon@sbarr.demon.co.uk>, Simon Barr 
<simon@sbarr.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>I've had a problem with sendmail and demand dialling recently so I thought
>I'd try qmail out.  I am almost 100% succesful, the only problem I have
>is that qmail qon't pick up any mail from demon's smtp host post.demon.co.uk

This would be better discussed in demon.ip.support.unix - follow-ups
set.

The first thing to bear in mind is that your incoming mail doesn't go
via post.d.c.u but to "punt-x.mail.demon.net" where x is currently
either 1 or 2.  To make life more complicated these machines are
clusters so deliveries will actually come from things like "punt-11".

>I've put post.demon.co.uk into control/smtproutes and it can send OK
>but its not picking anything up.  

It won't: smtproutes controls outgoing mail only.  I think your problem
is somewhat more fundamental - you need to ensure that there is an smtp
listener running which will accept incoming mail from Demon.  I think
all this is covered in the INSTALL for qmail: you'll need to edit
inetd.conf and restart inetd so that qmail-smtpd gets started
appropriately.  A connection to the local smtp port to prove that this
works is included in the tests within INSTALL.

If you really want to accept incoming connections only from Demon's
machines I think you'll need to use tcpwrappers or similar as this
doesn't seem to be a feature of qmail itself.  Make sure that you've got
things configured to prevent relaying and it should be safe to accept
anything on port 25 though.

>I use
>kill -14 qmail-send pid
>to send queued mail after I connect, is there a smilar command to receive
>as well ?

No, qmail-smtpd should start automatically once set up correctly.  There
are better ways of dealing with the outgoing queue as well, but one
thing at a time...

>I've looked though all the docs that came with qmail with no luck, can
>anyone help me out ?

Look at INSTALL again and confirm that all the tests work.  

Dan

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