Please help; tired of trying qmail & sendmail

Please.

I've spent the last two weeks trying to get a mail server up and running. I have redhat 9, and have been able to get apache and vsftpd running, but following the tutorial at qmailrocks.org has been nothing but errors.

For the 5th or 6th time, after speding an hour pasting text into the command line, I get to (something like) step 12 and I get an error. Of course, the only thing they say is "if you get this far without errors, you are ok". I got to the point of installing vqadmin and attempted accessing from an outside browser, but there were error messages that told me I was unatuhorized.

How 'bout it all? Any thoughts as to a mail server that a newbie can install without reinventing the wheel?

Regards,

Cage

Anyone? I am getting errors over which I have no control (invalid pointers, invalid arguments, unexpected data types returned). I scrolled up the screen after entering an instruction and found errors that went by so fast, I'd never know they were there otherwise (what is that about?!)...Just two instances:

rm -rf your install directory, and start again -- this time following the install instructions at http://www.lifewithqmail.org

Post exact copies of any error messages you get.

I'm sorry, I should have been clearer. The quote was copied directly from the terminal screen. Wrong data types returned, incompatible pointer types, implicit delaration of function 'rename', etc. I would never have known if I had not scrolled up the screen (it went by fairly quickly).

CC

You can safely ignore those errors; they're not fatal. If an error from make contains some *'s, then you can consider it fatal.

e.g

Otherwise it's a minor error or compiler-ism.

Thanks for trying Alexgreg.

Let it be known that not any text editor within linux can create a script file. I opened up my script in vi and found extra characters at the end of each line that Redhats GNU gedit put there. I spent $50 for a big yellos 'Redhat 9 Bible' published by Hungry Minds. I swear, I own 5 or 6 books from them, and they all have misleading information in all of them.

Beware!

CC

Just an FYI...I did the QMAILROCKS conversion this weekend. The documentation was a little thin in places, but overall it seemed to hit all the marks. {Cretin...The VqAdmin install part is a little technical, but if you continue to have problems post 'em and we'll see if we can't get you up and running }

It took me just under 6 hours to do the conversion. I am still locking down the last clean up stuff. The only thing I've run into is that my Root@localhost.localdomain account is MIA. Anyone have suggestions for getting it back in Evolution? I kinda need that acct to get my logwatch reports.

thanks,

Frog

I was never able to get qmail, sendmal, or postfix to work. I read and comprehend well, but I simply could not parse out all the different recipes. I always, always got different results when working from the command line than the instructions told me I should expect.

Every single rotten stinkin' time.

I downloaded a trial version of Surgemail (http://netwinsite.com) a week ago. I purchased a 10-user license for $150 USD two days ago, and today I have a fully functioning multi domain server. That works. That freakin' works.

I would much rather have gotten a solution when I started trying to configure a mail server in December last year. $150? The best money I have spent in a ling time. Beats the he.ll out of the last 4 months of BS.

Oh yeah, the 5 user license is free. I only have three domains. Why did I give them $150? Because the damn thing works, because they answered each and every question I had BEFORE I gave them any money, and because it was worth it.

4 months of wasted time? What a load.

cc

This Thread really hit's my reset button!

i am working my .... 's off the last week more than full time to get sendmail working on a basic slackware box (for fun mostly ) and i can NOT get the outgoing mail's right.

by accident i discovered that my VERY default installation of redhat (latest stable) has the exact same problem (the from: adres, see my other thread (PLEASE ;-)) but mail sent from it, DOES arrive at every adres i tested! as if the redhat box, DOES do some masquerading tricks inside the header, where the slackware box does not. (not by default and not after my tryings anyway.)

i point out that this (redhat) is an unmodified (by me after install anyway) sendmail config.

driving me nuts? but loving it still.

Greetings, Martijn