I appreciate receiving kind remarks from users of the HOWTO, as well as constructive criticism. Here are some emails I've received.
Last Modified: Wednesday, 29-Nov-2000 15:35:35 PST
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From: "Scoop Carlile"
Subject: Thanks
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 19:01:29 -0500
Thanks for the qmail howto. Perfect.
I would add only the config and config-fast are in the source =
directory...
Thanks again!
Scoop
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 01:33:51 +0100
From: Willem Oldeman
Subject: Qmail howto
Hello Adam,
Just a short line to say thanks for your qmail howto.
It was easy to read, very understandable and good spelling for a
change:)
I liked the bit in chapter 11:
"I have an almost obscene power over you now. It intoxicates me."
Mwoah! I'll RTFM:) (Read The F...... Manual )
I'm new to sendmail, qmail and the likes. My next task will be how to
figure out how to deal with masquerading. I have my Linux-box connected
with a cablemodem on a permanent IP address, and a small private
sub-network (linuxbogus.nl in the 192.168 range). The masquerading works
well... Now I need to get qmail to work with it properly:)
Wish me luck,
regards,
Willem Oldeman
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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 21:27:31 +0100
From: "Bernhard Sackarendt"
Subject: qmail-HOWTO
Hello,
I've read your qmail-HOWTO and found it great. But there is one
Question. Do you think about a new Version of this HOWTO, adapted to
the current Version of daemontools (0.61)? this version differs from
the one you used in your HOWTO.
regards
Bernhard Sackarendt
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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 08:51:09 -0400
From: Rick Reynolds
Subject: The qmail howto
I really appreciate the help your qmail howto gave me in getting qmail
up and running. Thanks!
I wanted to let you know that a few of the details described in the
howto have changed (since the version that is marked as last modified on
12/30/99). In particular, the directions that tell how to get tcpserver
running under the control of supervise will not work as advertised. It
looks like the way supervise is now used has changed quite a bit, the
tools accustamp and cyclog are no longer part of the daemontools package
(or were they part of ucspi-tcp?).
I was able to root around and figure it all out, and your howto
certainly got me on the right path.
Rick Reynolds
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From: "Neal Pollack"
Subject: Re: Fw: [2] clarification on qmail vs. Sun
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 22:54:36 -0700
Hi:
No, Sun is not looking at it. I run two linux boxes at home, one suse 6.3
the
other redhat 6.1, and wanted to learn something more secure than sendmail,
which takes too many years to master sendmail.cf files.
So the qmail interest has been for personal use.
As of tonight, I just finished testing about 14 message types while
doing a tail -f on the log files. All is working well.
This is SO VERY MUCH easier than sendmail setups. I've been
working with sendmail.cf since 1990, and will now never touch it again.
Thanks for your help.
Neal
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Neal S. Pollack 310-xxx-xxxx Extension xxxxx
Solaris Engineering Mgr, Sun Microsystems Inc.
Los Angeles, Ca. 90045 EMAIL: (deleted)@Sun.COM
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Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 15:02:15 -0500
From: Ruben Marrero
Subject: Hi Adam, this is Ruben.
Hi, i've just read trough your updated HOWTO, it's quite good,
congratulations!
Thanks a lot.
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From: "Blake R. Swopes"
Subject: qmail-HOWTO - init scripts
Date: Sun, 7 May 2000 19:01:10 -0700
First off, thanks for the qmail-HOWTO. I wouldn't have gotten qmail working
without it.
The reason I am writing is that I had originally used the init scripts from
your howto to start and stop qmail. I have since modified that script to use
a .pid file, and created another to start pop3d. If you are interested, you
can find those scripts at:
http://bhodisoft.com:8080/code/qmail
and
http://bhodisoft.com:8080/code/pop3d
Regards,
Blake R. Swopes
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Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 11:38:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Javier B
Subject: Give to me an advice
Hello:
I've read your qmail-howto published in
www.qmail.org. (It's very nice, and I could undertand
it in a few minutes). Now I'm trying to install vchkpw
on a Linux box, but when I check mail whith the pop3
server, it say that accound doesn't exist. What can I
do to check the instalation?
Please send me some information, about this, or
an other source of data.
Thank you
javib2000
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From: Danny Ybarra
Subject: Alternative
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 17:43:15 -0500
Adam,
First of all I want to commend you for writing such a great article. You
should write a qmail book!!! I have another scenario for you, what if you
weren't using any of those extra packages. How would you set qmail up? The
reason why is that none of the links work when I click on them. Let me know
what you think.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:24:06 +0200
From: Oliver Mensinger
Subject: Thank u!
Hi!
I am a student from Germany and just want to say "thank you for your
qmail howto"!
Greeting,
Oliver Mensinger.
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From: "Reuven M. Lerner"
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 08:35:27 +0300 (IDT)
Subject: qmail HOWTO
Hi, Adam. Thanks for writing and maintaining the qmail HOWTO; it's
invaluable in setting up my systems!
However, there seems to be a slight bug in your instructions: You
never tell people to make the stuff in /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-*
executable! It took me a few minutes to figure this one out; I'm not
sure how I missed it in the past.
Thanks again for the great documentation!
Reuven
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From: "Filippo Carletti"
Subject: qmail howto
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:55:57 +0200
I'm using RedHat and I prefer this setup for qmail user ids.
With -r we use system accounts (id<500), with -m and -k we don't copy
skeleton files and we use a null shell instead of /bin/false.
The FAQ is great, a really good job.
Thank you
Filippo
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Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:32:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Olivier Calle
Subject: calle.org MX
Hi Adam,
Well, I've got qmail setup and I've run through TEST.deliver and
TEST.receive and everything seems to be working fine. (Qmail is
definitely very nice to configure once it's up and running.)
Anyway, I guess I'm ready to have gw.calle.org setup as the MX for
calle.org (fingers kept carefully crossed...)
Thanks for your help (the HOWTO, etc.)
Olivier Calle
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From: "Mark Biernacki"
Subject: qmail-HOWTO
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 16:24:41 -0700
Adam,
I read your howto, You did have "I have an almost obscene power over =
you now". You had me. I was reading your drivil. I have mostly =
sun machines. I am now forced to put up a linux machine to be a webmail =
host. I have qmail installed and running like a dream on the sun =
machines, but i needed a little help with the linux. YOU helped me.
Thank you for your HOWTO.=20
Thank you for helping me.
Mark J. Biernacki
cpa@lobodirect.com
"wannabe qmail geek"
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From: "Tim"
Subject: Postcard
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:34:20 +0100
Hi,
I want to send you a postcard in apprecation of your excellent qmail how
to.
But I don't know your snail mail address. Call me thick but I can't seem to
find it on your site.
Cheers,
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From: "Exo-D"
Subject: Qmail and Outlook Express.
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 16:20:20 +0100
Hello Adam,
I read your HOWTO on Qmail and I must say that it is pretty clear to me.
It worked right away.
I only have one problem now. I used to run sendmail and could retrieve =
my email on my windows box using Outlook Express.
Since I installed Qmail I cannot do that anymore (at least, I have mail =
in /home/jeroen/Maildir) but I cannot retrieve that mail using Outlook =
Express.
Do you have any idea how I can solve this nasty problem?
Thanks in advance.
Yours,
Jeroen Kessenich
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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 08:17:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Cono D'Elia
Subject: howto amendment
Hi Adam,
Thanks for the howto, it was very usefull in getting qmail up and running on my
system. It may have been my mistake, but when I started svscan I got access deni
ed errors. This was because the run files were not secured as 755. I created eve
rything under root. After chmoding the run files to 755 everthing worked.
Also for the Maildir portion it maybe helpfull to add portions of the INSTALL.ma
ildir that explained how to use the maildirmake command and including the maildi
r director and files in /etc/skel.d so that it's automatically created upon acco
unt creation.
Cheers and Thanks again,
Cono D'Elia
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