qmail is an Excellent MTA(Mail Transport Agent) written by Dan Bernstein. Why qmail: * Security. qmail is secure. * Speed. qmail is capable of handing millions of deliveries per day on a moderate system. * Reliability. qmail writes mail to disk before it announces sUCcess. * Extremely easy virtual domain administration. * User-controlled mailing lists using ezmlm. * Intuitive, straightforward, and simple administration. Requirements: * You must be running UNIX or a UNIX-like operating system. * You must have a working DNS, and your system must have a DNS name. * You must have a working C compiler. Install file list: * netqmail-1.05.tar.gz * ucspi-tcp-0.88.tar.gz * daemontools-0.76.tar.gz * vpopmail-5.4.0.tar.gz * mysql-standard-4.0.20-pc-Linux-i686.tar.gz * apache_1.3.31.tar.gz * PHP-4.3.7.tar.gz * autorespond-2.0.4.tar.gz * ezmlm-0.53.tar.gz * ezmlm-idx-0.40.tar.gz * qmailadmin-1.2.0.tar.gz * sqwebmail-3.5.3.tar.gz Patches: * ezmlm-idx-0.53.400.unified_41.patch Scripts: * qmailctl * inst_check * qmailadmin_zh * zh-cn/* * images/webmail/* Preparation: Login the system as root. mkdir -p /usr/local/src mkdir -p /package Move the files of installation, patches and scripts except daemontools-0.76.tar.gz to /usr/local/src Move daemontools-0.76.tar.gz to /package chmod 1755 /package Start installation: cd /usr/local/src tar -xvzf netqmail-1.05.tar.gz cd netqmail-1.05 ./collate.sh # important sentence!!! cd .. tar -xvzf ucspi-tcp-0.88.tar.gz rm *.tar # optional, unless space is very tight cd /package tar -xvzf daemontools-0.76.tar.gz rm *.tar # optional, again ################################ # Install qmail ################################ mkdir /var/qmail mkdir /etc/qmail ln -s /etc/qmail /var/qmail/control # Create users and groups userdel alias userdel qmaild userdel qmaill userdel qmailp userdel qmailq userdel qmailr userdel qmails groupdel nofiles groupdel qmail groupadd nofiles useradd -g nofiles -d /var/qmail/alias alias useradd -g nofiles -d /var/qmail qmaild useradd -g nofiles -d /var/qmail qmaill useradd -g nofiles -d /var/qmail qmailp groupadd qmail useradd -g qmail -d /var/qmail qmailq useradd -g qmail -d /var/qmail qmailr useradd -g qmail -d /var/qmail qmails cd /usr/local/src/netqmail-1.05/netqmail-1.05 make setup check # If your DNS is configured properly, this script should be all you need at this point: ./config # Or you can configure your domain. ./config-fast mail.myqmail.com ################################ # Install ucspi-tcp ################################ cd /usr/local/src/ucspi-tcp-0.88 patch < /usr/local/src/netqmail-1.05/other-patches/ucspi-tcp-0.88.errno.patch make make setup check ################################ # Install daemontools ################################ cd /package tar -xvzf daemontools-0.76.tar.gz cd /package/admin/daemontools-0.76/src patch < /usr/local/src/netqmail-1.05/other-patches/daemontools-0.76.errno.patch cd .. package/install # Start qmail script vi /var/qmail/rc ######## Write the following section to file:/var/qmail/rc ######## #!/bin/sh # Using stdout for logging # Using control/defaultdelivery from qmail-local to deliver messages by default exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \ qmail-start "`cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery`" ######## End ######## chmod 755 /var/qmail/rc mkdir /var/log/qmail echo ./Maildir/ >/var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery mv /usr/local/src/qmailctl /var/qmail/bin/ chmod 755 /var/qmail/bin/qmailctl ln -s /var/qmail/bin/qmailctl /usr/bin # Create the supervise mkdir -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log mkdir -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log vi /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run ######## Write the following section to file:/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run ######## #!/bin/sh exec /var/qmail/rc ######## End ######## vi /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run ######## Write the following section to file:/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run ######## #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail ######## End ######## vi /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run ######## Write the following section to file:/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run ######## #!/bin/sh QMAILDUID=`id -u qmaild` NOFILESGID=`id -g qmaild` MAXSMTPD=`cat /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming` LOCAL=`head -1 /var/qmail/control/me` if [ -z "$QMAILDUID" -o -z "$NOFILESGID" -o -z "$MAXSMTPD" -o -z "$LOCAL" ]; then echo QMAILDUID, NOFILESGID, MAXSMTPD, or LOCAL is unset in echo /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run exit 1 fi if [ ! -f /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts ]; then echo "No /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts!" echo "Refusing to start SMTP listener because it'll create an open relay" exit 1 fi exec /usr/local/bin/softlimit -m 2000000 \ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l "$LOCAL" -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD" \ -u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 ######## End ######## echo 20 > /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming chmod 644 /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming vi /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run ######## Write the following section to file:/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run ######## #!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd ######## End ######## chmod +t /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send chmod +t /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd 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 mkdir -p /var/log/qmail/smtpd chown qmaill /var/log/qmail /var/log/qmail/smtpd ln -s /var/qmail/supervise/* /service/ # Allow the local host to inject mail via SMTP: echo '127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""' >>/etc/tcp.smtp qmailctl cdb # Stop and disable the installed MTA: /etc/init.d/sendmail stop /sbin/init.d/sendmail stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop # Uninstall the sendmail: rpm -e --nodeps sendmail # Verify that nothing is listening to the SMTP port (25): netstat -a grep smtp # If something is running, make sure it's not qmail by doing: qmailctl stop # The repeat the netstat check: netstat -a grep smtp # Replace any existing /usr/lib/sendmail with the qmail version: mv /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail.old # ignore errors
