Qmail hints

Installing qmail is non-trivial, but much easier than trying to debug sendmail. If you're trying to use qmail over a ppp connection with a dynamically allocated isp, you want to first download the documentation for how to do this: Mail queue with qmail. This will tell you the three pieces of software you need, and is a pretty good set of cookbook instructions for how to do it. I found that I needed to play with some of the permissions a little in ways that weren't described in the instructions, and I do seem to need to set the defaulthost as described in the FAQ.

I recommend running fetchmail with the -k option, or with "keep" in your .fetchmailrc while you're getting this working. Until you get the /var/qmail/alias directory just right, qmail has the potential to deliver your mail to some odd places, and if you are leaving the mail on the server, you can concentrate on just looking at the mail logs and not running around finding the lost messages.

When I upgraded from RedHat 5.0 to RedHat 5.2, I found I had to modify my .fetchmailrc to include my fully qualified name (lconrad@serpent.laymusic.local). I don't understand this, but it seems to be working.

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