Hello, qmail!
I'm trying to set up s/qmail-3.3.10 on my new Gentoo GNU/Linux desktop
box, after having used netqmail for around 10 years on my previous
machines. It's difficult!
I'm at the stage where I'm attempting to send local mail from a normal
user to itself and root using mutt. What's happening is these test
emails are accumulating in the queue rather than being delivered.
It seems the problem is that at the time of sending, qmail-send is not
running. There is a file /service/qmail-send/down, whose existence
signals to daemontools that the service is not to be started until
specifically requested. If I do
$ svc -u /service/qmail-send
to bring qmail-send (and several other daemons) up, and then send
another local mail from mutt, all the items in the queue have been
delivered.
My question is, is this situation (where qmail-send is not started at
boot up) intended? If so, how is qmail-send normally triggered? Would
deleting /service/qmail-send/down be a trouble-free solution to my
problem?
Thanks for the help!
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
I'm trying to set up s/qmail-3.3.10 on my new Gentoo GNU/Linux desktop
box, after having used netqmail for around 10 years on my previous
machines. It's difficult!
I'm at the stage where I'm attempting to send local mail from a normal
user to itself and root using mutt. What's happening is these test
emails are accumulating in the queue rather than being delivered.
It seems the problem is that at the time of sending, qmail-send is not
running. There is a file /service/qmail-send/down, whose existence
signals to daemontools that the service is not to be started until
specifically requested. If I do
$ svc -u /service/qmail-send
to bring qmail-send (and several other daemons) up, and then send
another local mail from mutt, all the items in the queue have been
delivered.
My question is, is this situation (where qmail-send is not started at
boot up) intended? If so, how is qmail-send normally triggered? Would
deleting /service/qmail-send/down be a trouble-free solution to my
problem?
Thanks for the help!
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
