Tag: qmail

centos 6 qmail (just qmail) for local outbound email only

after you’ve already done this: http://rln.d13dns.com/2014/07/19/djbdns-dnscache/

(if you’re not interested in a djbdns dns cache do the first two parts to install daemontools and ucspi)

Install outbound only qmail smtp service to your box with the following:

cd /var/tmp/
yum install gcc gcc-c++ make patch pam-devel openssl*  wget -y 
yum install vim-common vim-enhanced autoconf automake -y
wget http://www.qmail.org/netqmail-1.06.tar.gz
tar zxf netqmail-1.06.tar.gz 
cd netqmail-1.06
mkdir -p /var/qmail/alias
groupadd nofiles
useradd -M -g nofiles -d /var/qmail/alias alias
useradd -M -g nofiles -d /var/qmail qmaild
useradd -M -g nofiles -d /var/qmail qmaill
useradd -M -g nofiles -d /var/qmail qmailp
groupadd qmail
useradd -M -g qmail -d /var/qmail qmailq
useradd -M -g qmail -d /var/qmail qmailr
useradd -M -g qmail -d /var/qmail qmails
make setup check
./config
cat /dev/null > /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts
echo ./Mailbox >/var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery

cat > bin/qmailctl
# cut and paste contents of script from 2.8.2.1
# http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#start-qmail

chmod 755 /var/qmail/bin/qmailctl
mkdir -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log
mkdir -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log

echo '#!/bin/sh' >/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run
echo 'exec /var/qmail/rc' >>/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run

echo '#!/bin/sh' >/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run
echo 'exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail' >>/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run

cat > /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run
# cut and paste contents of script from 2.8.2.2
# http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#start-qmail

# if you get segfaults when you try to start qmail-smtpd
# you need to increase the soft limit in this file (9000000) 
# did the trick for me

# change the last line of the above script
# change the "0 smtp" to "127.0.0.1 25"

echo 5 > /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming
chmod 644 /var/qmail/control/concurrencyincoming

echo '#!/bin/sh' > /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run
echo 'exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd' >> /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run

    chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run
    chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log/run
    chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/run
    chmod 755 /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log/run

mkdir -p /var/log/qmail/smtpd
chown qmaill /var/log/qmail /var/log/qmail/smtpd
ln -s /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send 
/var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd /service
echo '127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""' >>/etc/tcp.smtp
/var/qmail/bin/qmailctl cdb

echo '#!/bin/sh' > /var/qmail/rc
echo >> /var/qmail/rc
echo '# Using stdout for logging' >> /var/qmail/rc
echo '# Using control/defaultdelivery from >> /var/qmail/rc
echo '# qmail-local to deliver messages by default >> /var/qmail/rc
echo >> /var/qmail/rc
echo 'exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" ' >> /var/qmail/rc
echo 'qmail-start "`cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery`"' >> /var/qmail/rc
chmod 755 /var/qmail/rc

/var/qmail/bin/qmailctl stop ;
/var/qmail/bin/qmailctl start

qmail on ubuntu

basically the qmail package in ubuntu kinda works, but things are in really unusual places, so for your sanity you should probably hand crank your qmail install.

If you don’t, you’ll want to replace the defaults in /var/lib/qmail/aliases for .qmail-default .qmail-postmaster and .qmail-root as the automagic install tries to do something fancy with an alias user who doesn’t exist.

smtproutes is your friend if you want to use qmail to forward email… ssmtp is my goto but my favorite monitoring package nefu doesn’t work with ssmtp, so I’ve taken to installing qmail everywhere.

/var/lib/qmail/control/smtproutes (it’s /var/qmail/control/smtproutes for sane installs)

either use:

 :hostname

to forward all email to said host, or you can use an ip like this

:[192.168.1.1]

also you can make it only listen to localhost (avoid adding yet another open relay to the internet) by editing

/var/lib/qmail/control/qmail-smtpd/run

and changing the 0 before smtp to 127.0.0.1

qmail is kindof complex to control, so when in doubt kill everything off, and let svnscan, runsv, or what ever is keeping an eye on qmail processes restart them for you… again for your sanity you should roll your own or use qmailtoaster on centos (I mean how hard is it to create an init script that behaves the way that you’d expect?)