From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 20 11:44:23 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09C4C16A41F for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:44:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from aiolos.otenet.gr (aiolos.otenet.gr [195.170.0.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BC6A43D6D for ; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:44:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from flame.pc (aris.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.226]) by aiolos.otenet.gr (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-8) with SMTP id jBKBi9po031149; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:44:09 +0200 Received: by flame.pc (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D3E1C1157A; Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:43:06 +0200 (EET) Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:43:06 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Gojyo Message-ID: <20051220114306.GE1064@flame.pc> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running qmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:44:23 -0000 On 2005-12-20 12:01, Gojyo wrote: > I manually started qmail-smtp. > However, even if it's running, it doesn't listen on any socket. Please quote the original message when you reply. I usually reply to 50-100 messages every day and this does *not* include the work-related email traffic I get. It so happens, mostly because of my aversion to qmail, that I remember the original post, but you can't expect everyone to remember everything about the original post without any sort of context. How did you start qmail-smtpd? It's not supposed to work just by running the binary as root. The qmail documentation explains how you can start it with tcpserver, for example. > I think I'm missing something, but what? > Is there some other thing that should I do? Yes, you are indeed missing something. The best way to find out what you are missing is to read carefully the qmail installation guide or one of the dozens of online tutorials about setting up qmail, i.e.: http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ Your question is answered in the qmail FAQ too: http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq.html http://cr.yp.to/qmail/faq/servers.html#tcpserver-smtpd I hope this helps, - Giorgos