Installing qmail with the Debian package
by lucmove from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5BF9Q)
The one big problem with qmail is the humongous mess it is. There are god knows how many versions out there, each with its own set of instructions and most of them are very old.
I am trying to install and run the default package in Debian 9. It has installed the following packages:
daemontools fastforward procmail qmail-run qmail-uids-gids runit ucspi-tcp
Now, it's not running. Maybe the bigger problem is that supervise isn't running either. All the instructions I have collected (including a VERY old installation script I made myself in 2004) include a ridiculousy long list of post-installation command lines, which I will never understand why they were not automated/included in the default installation in the first place. I will never understand why qmail has always had to be such an Ikea/Revell kit rather than a finished product.
Now, all the instructions I have often refer to /var/qmail/control/ which doesn't exist in the Debian package installation. And I don't know what else is different about it. I don't know which of all those endless post-installation command lines still have to be run or not, and if they will require any changes. Is that documented somewhere? The official Debian documentation clearly assumes you know qmail inside out and thus is not clear on many steps of the ordeal. Any guidance I can get here will be very appreciated.
TIA
I am trying to install and run the default package in Debian 9. It has installed the following packages:
daemontools fastforward procmail qmail-run qmail-uids-gids runit ucspi-tcp
Now, it's not running. Maybe the bigger problem is that supervise isn't running either. All the instructions I have collected (including a VERY old installation script I made myself in 2004) include a ridiculousy long list of post-installation command lines, which I will never understand why they were not automated/included in the default installation in the first place. I will never understand why qmail has always had to be such an Ikea/Revell kit rather than a finished product.
Now, all the instructions I have often refer to /var/qmail/control/ which doesn't exist in the Debian package installation. And I don't know what else is different about it. I don't know which of all those endless post-installation command lines still have to be run or not, and if they will require any changes. Is that documented somewhere? The official Debian documentation clearly assumes you know qmail inside out and thus is not clear on many steps of the ordeal. Any guidance I can get here will be very appreciated.
TIA