Qmail Installation on Debian Lenny

This page is nominated for deletion: These instructions contain nothing specific to Koha and also some poor security practice. It should be put on the qmailrocks site or someone's personal website, not here.

These instructions are adapted from the process described on qmailrocks.org:

(From the command-line, logged in as the Koha admin.)

1. sudo apt-get install patchutils
2. sudo cpan Digest::SHA1 Digest::HMAC Net::DNS Time::HiRes HTML::Tagset HTML::Parser
3. (in the farthest down directory) sudo mkdir downloads
4. cd downloads
5. wget http://www.qmailrocks.org/downloads/qmailrocks.tar.gz
6. tar -xvvf qmailrocks.tar.gz
7. sudo /downloads/qmailrocks/scripts/install/qmr_install_linux-s1.script
8. sudo /downloads/qmailrocks/scripts/util/qmail_big_patches.script
9. cd /usr/src/qmail/qmail-1.03
10. sudo make man && sudo make setup check
11. sudo ./config-fast [mail.mydomain.com]
12. sudo make cert
13. sudo chown -R vpopmail:qmail /var/qmail/control/clientcert.pem /var/qmail/control/servercert.pem
14. sudo pico /usr/src/qmail/ucspi-tcp-0.88/error.h
15. replace “extern int errno;” with ”#include <errno.h>”
16. sudo make && sudo make setup check
17. sudo pico /package/admin/daemontools-0.76/src/error.h
18. replace “extern int errno;” with ”#include <errno.h>”
19. cd /package/admin/daemontools-0.76
20. sudo package/install
21. sudo /downloads/qmailrocks/scripts/finalize/linux/finalize_linux.script
22. sudo pico /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d/run
23. replace “mail.example.com” with your server's hostname
24. sudo qmailctl stop
25. su (change to root/superuser)
26. echo '127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=””' » /etc/tcp.smtp
27. qmailctl cdb
28. echo [your email here] > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root
29. echo [your email here] > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster
30. echo [your email here] > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-mailer-daemon
31. rm /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-anonymous
32. ln -s /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-anonymous
33. chmod 644 /var/qmail/alias/.qmail*
34. exit
35. sudo /etc/init.d/exim4 stop
36. cd /etc/rc2.d
37. sudo mv S20exim4 K20exim4
38. sudo rm -f /usr/lib/sendmail
39. sudo rm -f /usr/sbin/sendmail
40. sudo ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail
41. sudo ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
42. sudo dpkg –purge –force-depends postfix
43. sudo /downloads/qmailrocks/scripts/util/qmr_inst_check
44. sudo qmailctl stop
45. sudo qmailctl start
46. sudo qmailctl stat (shows stats)
47. test (echo To: joe@example.com | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject)

NOTE: qmail can be reconfigured through /usr/src/qmail/qmail-1.03/config-fast [hostname]