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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
> I've put post.demon.co.uk into control/smtproutes and it can send OK
> but its not picking anything up.  
> I use
> kill -14 qmail-send pid
> to send queued mail after I connect, is there a smilar command to receive
> as well ?

At a guess you've missed the step where you modify inetd -- qmail doesn't run
as a monolithic programe like sendmail. it has another program which receives
messages and passes them to qmail-send to sort and deliver.
Nick Leverton's got a really neat patch for qmail which controls delivery
when you go online.

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

from qmail-1.01/install:
	23. Set up qmail-smtpd in /etc/inetd.conf (all on one line):
smtp stream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
	    Also comment out comsat in /etc/inetd.conf.
	24. Reboot. (Or kill -HUP your inetd and make sure the qmail daemons
	    are running.)

check this is working by doing:
$ telnet 0 25
which should produce something like:

Trying 0.0.0.0...
Connected to 0.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 illuin.demon.co.uk ESMTP

type:
quit
to end the connection.

221 illuin.demon.co.uk
Connection closed by foreign host.

[0.0.0.0 means 'any local address' and typing just 0 sames the ole fingers]

RjL
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