Forum OpenACS Q&A: qmail problems..

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1: qmail problems..
Posted by David Kuczek on 11/25/03 04:53 PM
is there a way to stop qmail?

I tried:

svc -d /service/send
svc -d /service/smtpd
qmailctl stop

BUT qmail is still sending away emails...

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2: Re: qmail problems.. (response to 1)
Posted by David Kuczek on 11/25/03 04:55 PM
and how can I replace qmail-1.0.3 with netqmail-1.0.4???

I tried to compile it, but got the following error:

./install
install: fatal: unable to write .../bin/qmail-lspawn: text busy
make: *** [setup] Error 111

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3: Re: qmail problems.. (response to 1)
Posted by David Kuczek on 11/25/03 05:10 PM
And what would I have to do to if I wanted to use sendmail again (just to test 😊? I basically followed the official docs whenever I installed qmail.
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4: Re: qmail problems.. (response to 2)
Posted by Mat Kovach on 11/25/03 05:13 PM
First of all, what is the output of:

svstat /service/*
ps -ef | grep qmail

Why are you upgrading to netqmail-1.04 (which is simply qmail-1.03 with some basic patches).  What problem are you trying to solve?

The error you received is because qmail-send was still running and it was attempting to deliver a message locally.  Did you check the qmail logs to verify that qmail had actuallly stopped?

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5: Re: qmail problems.. (response to 1)
Posted by David Kuczek on 11/25/03 06:30 PM
Hey Mat,

my basic problem is that some of my users say that emails that are being sent over my server are not being received by their friends. But only certain domains are not accepting it. Do you have to register your mail server somewhere so you don't get mistaken for a spam server? Before I switched to qmail (using sendmail) everything worked fine, but maybe back then the spam problem was not that major. I let my users send email to other users using their original email address as the sender address. Well obviously my server is not yahoo.com if somebody sends his email with mailto:xy@yahoo.com to another user.

I stopped qmail and recompiled netqmail without problems... Thanks. After that I could stop qmail and it really stopped. When I was running qmail-1.0.3 my server would keep on sending emails although I did a svc -d /service/qmail-send and svc -d /service/qmail-smtpd ...