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by **A. L. Meyer** » Wed, 06 Mar 2002 18:16:04

Hi! Having used qmail a long time on GNU/Linux (install and config were
a snap), decided to do the same with fbsd but have run into a
snag. Sending mail works perfectly.

Using fetchmail to download mail from a pop server, I always get the
error message:

SMTP connect to localhost failed

Probably I have misconfigured or forgot to configure something and
would much appreciate your suggestions. Which config files would you
like to see? Have tried to imitate GNU/Linux config but unsuccessfully
until now. ;-(

Lucien
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by **Drew Laws** » Thu, 07 Mar 2002 02:38:12

Quote:>Hi! Having used qmail a long time on GNU/Linux (install and config were
>a snap), decided to do the same with fbsd but have run into a
>snag. Sending mail works perfectly.

>Using fetchmail to download mail from a pop server, I always get the
>error message:

>SMTP connect to localhost failed

>Probably I have misconfigured or forgot to configure something and
>would much appreciate your suggestions. Which config files would you
>like to see? Have tried to imitate GNU/Linux config but unsuccessfully
>until now. ;-(

Probably obvious, but is the qmail daemon running and listening on
port 25? (sockstat -l | grep :25)

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by **A. L. Meyer** » Sat, 09 Mar 2002 17:30:20

>>Hi! Having used qmail a long time on GNU/Linux (install and config were
>>a snap), decided to do the same with fbsd but have run into a
>>snag. Sending mail works perfectly.

>>Using fetchmail to download mail from a pop server, I always get the
>>error message:

>>SMTP connect to localhost failed

>>Probably I have misconfigured or forgot to configure something and
>>would much appreciate your suggestions. Which config files would you
>>like to see? Have tried to imitate GNU/Linux config but unsuccessfully
>>until now. ;-(

> Probably obvious, but is the qmail daemon running and listening on
> port 25? (sockstat -l | grep :25)

Thanks, Drew. Obvious for you but not for a lazy newbie like
meself. Running the command sockstat -l | grep :25 produces no output
so apparently I have a problem here. The output of ps -a run as root is:

PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
138 v0 Is 0:00.02 login -p root
146 v0 S 0:00.09 -tcsh (tcsh)
160 v0 R+ 0:00.00 ps -a
139 v1 Is+ 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv1
140 v2 Is+ 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv2
141 v3 Is+ 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv3
142 v4 Is+ 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv4
143 v5 Is+ 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv5
144 v6 Is+ 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv6
145 v7 Is+ 0:00.01 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv7
132 con- I+ 0:00.02 qmail-send
134 con- I+ 0:00.00 /var/qmail/bin/splogger qmail
135 con- I+ 0:00.00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/
136 con- I+ 0:00.00 qmail-rspawn
137 con- I+ 0:00.00 qmail-clean

What next step would you recommend, please?

Lucien
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by **jwk** » Sun, 10 Mar 2002 05:21:00

Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 09:30:20 +0100

> Thanks, Drew. Obvious for you but not for a lazy newbie like
> meself. Running the command sockstat -l | grep :25 produces no output
> so apparently I have a problem here. The output of ps -a run as root is:

> PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
> 132 con- I+ 0:00.02 qmail-send
> 134 con- I+ 0:00.00 /var/qmail/bin/splogger qmail
> 135 con- I+ 0:00.00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/
> 136 con- I+ 0:00.00 qmail-rspawn
> 137 con- I+ 0:00.00 qmail-clean

> What next step would you recommend, please?

Find out where your qmail-smtpd process is started and why this step
doesn't work. Here, it's in /etc/xinetd.conf, but it will probably be
started in /etc/inetd.conf on your box. Check, then double check what's
happening there.

Good luck,
Jurriaan
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by **A. L. Meyer** » Sun, 10 Mar 2002 05:30:36

> Date: Fri Mar 8 08:30:20 2002 UT

>> Thanks, Drew. Obvious for you but not for a lazy newbie like
>> meself. Running the command sockstat -l | grep :25 produces no output
>> so apparently I have a problem here. The output of ps -a run as root is:

>> PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
>> 132 con- I+ 0:00.02 qmail-send
>> 134 con- I+ 0:00.00 /var/qmail/bin/splogger qmail
>> 135 con- I+ 0:00.00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/
>> 136 con- I+ 0:00.00 qmail-rspawn
>> 137 con- I+ 0:00.00 qmail-clean

>> What next step would you recommend, please?

> Find out where your qmail-smtpd process is started and why this step
> doesn't work. Here, it's in /etc/xinetd.conf, but it will probably be
> started in /etc/inetd.conf on your box. Check, then double check what's
> happening there.

Jurriaan, thanks. On Slackware it is in /etc/rc.d/rc.qmail. On FreeBSD
it is by default in /var/qmail. The scripts are somewhat different and
neither appears to work correctly on FreeBSD. I opted for the "maildir"
script on FreeBSD because I use gnus which supports the maildir format.

Have you a hint what I should look for exactly? :-)

Lucien
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by **jwk** » Sun, 10 Mar 2002 21:02:23

Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 21:30:36 +0100

>> Find out where your qmail-smtpd process is started and why this step
>> doesn't work. Here, it's in /etc/xinetd.conf, but it will probably be
>> started in /etc/inetd.conf on your box. Check, then double check what's
>> happening there.

> Jurriaan, thanks. On Slackware it is in /etc/rc.d/rc.qmail. On FreeBSD
> it is by default in /var/qmail. The scripts are somewhat different and
> neither appears to work correctly on FreeBSD. I opted for the "maildir"
> script on FreeBSD because I use gnus which supports the maildir format.

Those scripts are not what I mean. Somewhere, the system is configured
so that when a connection to port 25 is made, qmail-smtpd is started.
That probably is somewhere in /etc, with /etc/inetd.conf a likely
suspect.

Quote:
> Have you a hint what I should look for exactly? :-)

Unfortunately, no. I'm a linux-user, and follow this group purely to see
what's happening 'across the fence'. Have you tried www.google.com (the
'discussions') to see if anyone had this problem before and perhaps has
solved it?

Good luck,
Jurriaan
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by **A. L. Meyer** » Mon, 11 Mar 2002 01:26:20

> Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 21:30:36 +0100

>>> Find out where your qmail-smtpd process is started and why this step
>>> doesn't work. Here, it's in /etc/xinetd.conf, but it will probably be
>>> started in /etc/inetd.conf on your box. Check, then double check what's
>>> happening there.

>> Jurriaan, thanks. On Slackware it is in /etc/rc.d/rc.qmail. On FreeBSD
>> it is by default in /var/qmail. The scripts are somewhat different and
>> neither appears to work correctly on FreeBSD. I opted for the "maildir"
>> script on FreeBSD because I use gnus which supports the maildir format.

> Those scripts are not what I mean. Somewhere, the system is configured
> so that when a connection to port 25 is made, qmail-smtpd is started.
> That probably is somewhere in /etc, with /etc/inetd.conf a likely
> suspect.

>> Have you a hint what I should look for exactly? :-)

> Unfortunately, no. I'm a linux-user, and follow this group purely to see
> what's happening 'across the fence'. Have you tried www.google.com (the
> 'discussions') to see if anyone had this problem before and perhaps has
> solved it?

Thank's quite OK, Jurriaan, at least someone is trying to help me,
which I much appreciate.

In my /etc/inetd.conf (original from installation) everything is
commented out with # and in /etc/rc.conf the inetd is set to NO.
But I can nevertheless send mails, just not receive them.

Lucien
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by **Frank Shu** » Tue, 12 Mar 2002 01:40:27

>> Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 21:30:36 +0100

>>>> Find out where your qmail-smtpd process is started and why this step
>>>> doesn't work. Here, it's in /etc/xinetd.conf, but it will probably be
>>>> started in /etc/inetd.conf on your box. Check, then double check what's
>>>> happening there.

>>> Jurriaan, thanks. On Slackware it is in /etc/rc.d/rc.qmail. On FreeBSD
>>> it is by default in /var/qmail. The scripts are somewhat different and
>>> neither appears to work correctly on FreeBSD. I opted for the "maildir"
>>> script on FreeBSD because I use gnus which supports the maildir format.

>> Those scripts are not what I mean. Somewhere, the system is configured
>> so that when a connection to port 25 is made, qmail-smtpd is started.
>> That probably is somewhere in /etc, with /etc/inetd.conf a likely
>> suspect.

>>> Have you a hint what I should look for exactly? :-)

>> Unfortunately, no. I'm a linux-user, and follow this group purely to see
>> what's happening 'across the fence'. Have you tried www.google.com (the
>> 'discussions') to see if anyone had this problem before and perhaps has
>> solved it?

> Thank's quite OK, Jurriaan, at least someone is trying to help me,
> which I much appreciate.

> In my /etc/inetd.conf (original from installation) everything is
> commented out with # and in /etc/rc.conf the inetd is set to NO.
> But I can nevertheless send mails, just not receive them.

On both my BSD and linux box I run this line from rc.local:

/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -x/etc/tcprules.cdb -u1003 -g65534 0 smtp\
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 &

Your incantation will differ as the appropriate uid & gid will be different.

You'll need ucspi-tcp-0.80 or similar from www.qmail.org.

You can run qmail-smtpd from inetd but I prefer the above way.

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