April 30, 2011 Roberto Puzzanghera11 comments
This short guide helped a number of people, also newbies in some case, to successfully install a mail server based on qmail.
In case the informations published here are not sufficiently clear and exhaustive, if you want to address me a comment, an hint or a criticism, don't hesitate to post a comment or to contact me via email!
Anyway, if you don't want to take the trouble to read all the documentation and do it by yourself, because you don't have the time, I can offer a consulting service.
qmail-smtpd and OAUTH
March 2, 2021 10:29
problem with passwords containing special characters like %
March 2, 2021 10:24
qmail-smtpd and OAUTH
March 1, 2021 15:22
problem with passwords containing special characters like %
February 28, 2021 12:26
problem with passwords containing special characters like %
February 26, 2021 22:02
problem with passwords containing special characters like %
February 26, 2021 10:05
What about using --disable-many-domains on vpopmail configure ?
February 22, 2021 16:49
aliasdomain patch compilation issue
February 21, 2021 16:28
aliasdomain patch compilation issue
February 21, 2021 14:35
Lua backend
February 16, 2021 16:07
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bounce queue too long
charles October 2, 2019 04:24
I got this bounce:
any idea?
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bounce queue too long
Roberto Puzzanghera charles October 3, 2019 15:36
DNS records are wrong or not set up correctly or inaccessible, or your server is trying to retrieve ANY dns records, which produces a very large response from the DNS that may overflow your response buffer. In this case the any-to-cname patch would help. Are you using my combined patch?
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DKIM on Qmail
Thorpe Mayes November 15, 2018 20:40
Hi,
I have qmail running on CentOS 7.x. It was installed per Life With Qmail. It is working fine.
I need to add DKIM.
I assumed that I could simply add the dkim-netqmail-1.06 patch on top of the patches I initially added (qmail-1.03.errno.patch
qmail-1.03.qmail_local.patch
qmail-0.0.0.0.patch
qmail-1.03.qmtpd-netstring.patch
qmail-103.patch)
When I did that I got the following errors:
I went ahead and ran make, and got this:
Clearly I am not doing something correctly. Do I need to simply start over? Eliminate one or more of the other patches? Something else?
I am grateful for any ideas.
Thorpe
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DKIM on Qmail
Roberto Puzzanghera Thorpe Mayes November 17, 2018 11:54
Hi, the DKIM patch is intended to be applied over a fresh netqmail. In this case, before compiling, you have to open those .rej files, look what went wrong during the patch process and then manually correct the source.
Edit: Perhaps it could be easier to apply DKIM firstly, and then add all the other extra patches not included already in netqmail
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DKIM on Qmail
Thorpe Mayes Roberto Puzzanghera November 20, 2018 16:24
Hi Roberto,
Thank you for the reply and insights.
I have DKIM working, which turned out to be simpler than I was making it.
Thank you.
Thorpe
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Qmail Alias
Tim September 11, 2018 10:50
Hello,
i installed qmail with your tutorial and everything ist working fine exept of the aliases.
I want that when i write an Email to an adress that qmail triggers a script which i run with an command in the alias:
|/path/to/the/script/script.sh&
But that doesn't work. Can you help me?
kind regards
Tim
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Qmail Alias
Roberto Puzzanghera Tim September 11, 2018 11:13
Hi, I suppose you are inserting that line in your .qmail files... what error do you get?
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Adding qmail to supervisord
Jitender May 28, 2018 01:30
Hi,
I am trying to dockerize qmail.
Installling daemontools kills the container(send sig hup 1 which kills init script) + it tries to change innittab. I tried commenting out that part. Compiled qmail and related services + patch. But. now I am having issue adding this to supervirsord.I tried adding all running services related to qmail from a working installation but looks I am doing this wrong:
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I am getting this for al except svscan and svscanboot.
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Adding qmail to supervisord
Roberto Puzzanghera Jitender May 28, 2018 14:19
Sorry, I'm not familiar with supervisord
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mail not delivered in mailbox follow up
Ed Vrijmoet November 11, 2017 01:30
after looking in my send log i see failure:
but the mailbox is there.
it looks like it can not find my mailbox what could be wrong in the configuration.
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mail not delivered in mailbox follow up
Roberto Puzzanghera Ed Vrijmoet November 11, 2017 14:19
Hi, you should provide more details... at least the complete qmail-send log
Are you strictly following my guide? Which lda are you using? dovecot or vpopmail?
And since I received a lot of messages about the missing log@domain mailbox, sorry if I ask, but are you sure that the missing mailbox is the recipient and not the log@yourdomain?
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