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<a name="install-qmail" id="install-qmail"></a>Install qmail (OPTIONAL)</h2></div></div></div><p>Qmail is a secure, reliable, efficient, simple Mail Transfer
Agent. It handles incoming and outgoing mail. Install qmail if you
want your OpenACS server to send and receive mail, and you
don't want to use an alternate MTA.</p><div class="orderedlist"><ol class="orderedlist" type="1">
<li class="listitem"><p>
<strong>Install qmail. </strong>QMail is available
as standard Debian/Ubuntu package, rpms for Fedora/Redhat/CenTOS
are available from <a class="ulink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qmail" target="_top">QMail wiki
page</a>
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<p>Replace sendmail with qmail's wrapper.</p><a class="indexterm" name="idp105548967311816" id="idp105548967311816"></a><pre class="screen">
[root qmail-1.03]# <strong class="userinput"><code>rm -f /usr/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail</code></strong>
[root qmail-1.03]# <strong class="userinput"><code>ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail</code></strong>
[root qmail-1.03]#
<span class="action"><span class="action">rm -f /usr/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail</span></span>
</pre><p>Configure qmail - specifically, run the config script to set up
files in <code class="computeroutput">/var/qmail/control</code>
specifying the computer's identity and which addresses it
should accept mail for. This command will automatically set up
qmail correctly if you have correctly set a valid host name. If
not, you'll want to read <code class="computeroutput">/var/qmail/doc/INSTALL.ctl</code> to find out how
to configure qmail.</p><pre class="screen">
[root qmail-1.03]# <strong class="userinput"><code>./config-fast <span class="replaceable"><span class="replaceable">yourserver.test</span></span>
</code></strong>
Your fully qualified hostname is yourserver.test.
Putting yourserver.test into control/me...
Putting yourserver.test into control/defaultdomain...
Putting yourserver.test into control/plusdomain...
Putting yourserver.test into control/locals...
Putting yourserver.test into control/rcpthosts...
Now qmail will refuse to accept SMTP messages except to yourserver.test.
Make sure to change rcpthosts if you add hosts to locals or virtualdomains!
[root qmail-1.03]#
<span class="action"><span class="action">./config-fast <span class="replaceable"><span class="replaceable">yourserver.test</span></span>
</span></span>
</pre><p>All incoming mail that isn't for a specific user is handled
by the <code class="computeroutput">alias</code> user. This
includes all root mail. These commands prepare the alias user to
receive mail.</p><pre class="screen">
[root qmail-1.03]# <strong class="userinput"><code>cd ~alias; touch .qmail-postmaster .qmail-mailer-daemon .qmail-root</code></strong>
[root alias]# <strong class="userinput"><code>chmod 644 ~alias/.qmail*</code></strong>
[root alias]# <strong class="userinput"><code>/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake ~alias/Maildir/</code></strong>
[root alias]# <strong class="userinput"><code>chown -R alias.nofiles /var/qmail/alias/Maildir</code></strong>
[root alias]#
<span class="action"><span class="action">cd ~alias; touch .qmail-postmaster .qmail-mailer-daemon .qmail-root
chmod 644 ~alias/.qmail*
/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake ~alias/Maildir/
chown -R alias.nofiles /var/qmail/alias/Maildir</span></span>
</pre><a class="indexterm" name="idp105548967322184" id="idp105548967322184"></a><p>Configure qmail to use the Maildir delivery format (instead of
mbox), and install a version of the qmail startup script modified
to use Maildir.</p><pre class="screen">
[root alias]# <strong class="userinput"><code>echo "./Maildir" > /var/qmail/bin/.qmail</code></strong>
[root alias]# <strong class="userinput"><code>cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail.rc.txt /var/qmail/rc</code></strong>
[root alias]# <strong class="userinput"><code>chmod 755 /var/qmail/rc</code></strong>
[root alias]#
<span class="action"><span class="action">echo "./Maildir" > /var/qmail/bin/.qmail
cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail.rc.txt /var/qmail/rc
chmod 755 /var/qmail/rc
</span></span>
</pre><p>Set up the skeleton directory so that new users will be
configured for qmail.</p><pre class="screen">
[root root]# <strong class="userinput"><code>/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake /etc/skel/Maildir</code></strong>
[root root]# <strong class="userinput"><code>echo "./Maildir/" > /etc/skel/.qmail</code></strong>
[root root]#
<span class="action"><span class="action">/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake /etc/skel/Maildir
echo "./Maildir/" > /etc/skel/.qmail</span></span>
</pre><p>As recommended, we will run qmail with daemontools control
files. Create daemontools control directories, set up a daemontools
control script, copy the supervise control files, and set
permissions. The last line links the control directories to
/service, which will cause supervise to detect them and execute the
run files, causing qmail to start.</p><pre class="screen">
[root root]# <strong class="userinput"><code>mkdir -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log</code></strong>
[root root]# <strong class="userinput"><code>mkdir -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log</code></strong>
[root root]# <strong class="userinput"><code>mkdir /var/log/qmail</code></strong>
[root root]# <strong class="userinput"><code>chown qmaill /var/log/qmail</code></strong>
[root root]# <strong class="userinput"><code>cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmailctl.txt /var/qmail/bin/qmailctl</code></strong>
[root root]# <strong class="userinput"><code>chmod 755 /var/qmail/bin/qmailctl</code></strong>
[root root]# <strong class="userinput"><code>ln -s /var/qmail/bin/qmailctl /usr/bin</code></strong>
[root root]# <strong class="userinput"><code>cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-send-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run </code></strong>
[root root]# <strong class="userinput"><code>cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-send-log-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run</code></strong>
[root root]# <strong class="userinput"><code>cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-smtpd-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run</code></strong>
[root root]# <strong class="userinput"><code>cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-smtpd-log-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run</code></strong>
[root root]# <strong class="userinput"><code>chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run</code></strong>
[root root]# <strong class="userinput"><code>chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run</code></strong>
[root root]# <strong class="userinput"><code>chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run</code></strong>
[root root]# <strong class="userinput"><code>chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run</code></strong>
[root root]# <strong class="userinput"><code>ln -s /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd /service</code></strong>
[root root]# <strong class="userinput"><code>ln -s /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd /service</code></strong><span class="action"><span class="action">mkdir -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log
mkdir -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log
mkdir /var/log/qmail
chown qmaill /var/log/qmail
cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmailctl.txt /var/qmail/bin/qmailctl
chmod 755 /var/qmail/bin/qmailctl
ln -s /var/qmail/bin/qmailctl /usr/bin
cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-send-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run
cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-send-log-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run
cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-smtpd-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run
cp /tmp/openacs-5.9.0/packages/acs-core-docs/www/files/qmail-smtpd-log-run.txt /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run
chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run
chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run
chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run
chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run
ln -s /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd /service
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</pre><p>Wait ten seconds or so, and then verify that the four qmail
processes are running. If uptimes don't rise above 1 second,
this may indicate broken scripts that are continuously restarting.
In that case, start debugging by checking permissions.</p><pre class="screen">
[root root]# <strong class="userinput"><code>qmailctl stat</code></strong>
/service/qmail-send: up (pid 32700) 430 seconds
/service/qmail-send/log: up (pid 32701) 430 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 32704) 430 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd/log: up (pid 32705) 430 seconds
messages in queue: 0
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0
[root root]#
</pre><p>Further verify by sending and receiving email. Incoming mail for
root is stored in <code class="computeroutput">/var/qmail/alias/Maildir</code>.</p>
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