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Getting help
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You've installed an automated and customized qmail-run package. If
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you're having trouble getting the qmail daemons to run, ask the
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package's maintainer (<schmonz-nbqmail@schmonz.com>).
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While qmail includes installation instructions, many members of
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the qmail list instead recommend following Dave Sill's "Life with
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qmail" document:
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<URL:http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html>
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The qmail package you've installed follows LWQ in many aspects,
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but consciously deviates from it in others. Therefore, if you need
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to ask for help on the qmail list, please mention that you use the
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pkgsrc qmail-run package. If you can first reproduce your problem
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on a manual LWQ-style installation, your request for help is likely
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to be better received.
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It is highly recommended that you read Charles Cazabon's "12 Steps
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to qmail List Bliss" before posting to the list:
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<URL:http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/writings/12-steps-to-qmail-list-bliss.html>
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Deviations from LWQ
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LWQ suggests doing some things that the qmail package doesn't do:
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* Copying a script from /var/qmail/boot to /var/qmail/rc.
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* Configuring svscan(8) to run at boot.
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* Creating and/or populating /service.
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* Using supervise(8) and multilog(8).
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* Using the qmailctl script to control qmail.
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* Using the inst_check script to verify the installation.
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* Storing tcp.smtp{,cdb} in /etc.
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* Renaming the system sendmail(8) and marking it non-executable.
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Instead, to behave more like a typical pkgsrc package, the package:
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* Provides NetBSD-style rc.d scripts, including one very similar to qmailctl.
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* Sends log messages to syslog(3) by default.
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* Stores tcp.smtp{,cdb} and tcp.pop3{,cdb} in ${PKG_SYSCONFDIR}.
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* Uses mailwrapper(8) and mailer.conf(5).
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