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This guide helped many people, also newbies in some cases, 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...
Setting the tcprules files for qmail
TCP connections targeting tcpserver or sslserver can denied or allowed given several connection informations, like the client's IP address. tcprules allows to define rules for incoming TCP connections to decided whether they finally will result in an active TCP session. If...
Configuring the Sender Rewriting Scheme (SRS) on qmail
open-spf.org libsrs2 site Marcelo Coelho's patch for qmail SPF "breaks" email forwarding. SRS is a way to fix it. SRS is a simple way for forwarding MTAs to rewrite the sender address. If you followed the 'quick configuration' based on the config-all script, the SRS...
Testing qmail, SMTP and auth
At this time /command/svcscanboot should have started qmail: > ps axfww 20017 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/sh /command/svscanboot 20019 ? S 0:00 \_ svscan /service 20021 ? S 0:00 | \_ supervise qmail-submission 20032 ? S 0:00 | | \_ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l...
