[ale] any qmail guru's out therE?

Chris Farris chrisf at primeharbor.com
Thu Dec 12 08:49:17 EST 2002


Qmail's pop server doesn't come with the base qmail package. And looking
at your ps the qmail-pop3d isn't running...... I don't have the commands
handy to load the pop server (and set up pop before SMTP), but they are
on the qmail.org site.

Chris


On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 08:23, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> Well, it looks like im losing my battle with qmail...  I installed it 
> following the life with qmail instructions.
> I can load it without errors:
> 
> [root at www cbergeron]$ qmailctl stat                
> /service/qmail-send: up (pid 18446) 79310 seconds
> /service/qmail-send/log: up (pid 25086) 2574472 seconds
> /service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 18449) 79310 seconds
> /service/qmail-smtpd/log: up (pid 25093) 2574472 seconds
> messages in queue: 0
> messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0
> 
> 
> It looks like it's running (ps aux snippet):
> root     24677  0.0  0.1  2172 1048 ?        S    Nov12   0:00 /bin/sh 
> /command/svscanboot
> root     24679  0.0  0.0  1428  340 ?        S    Nov12   0:00  \_ 
> svscan /service
> root     25081  0.0  0.0  1388  288 ?        S    Nov12   0:00  |   \_ 
> supervise qmail-send
> qmails   18446  0.0  0.0  1440  384 ?        S    Dec11   0:00  |   |   
> \_ qmail-send
> qmaill   18454  0.0  0.0  1408  464 ?        S    Dec11   0:00  |   
> |       \_ splogger qmail
> root     18455  0.0  0.0  1396  324 ?        S    Dec11   0:00  |   
> |       \_ qmail-lspawn ./Mailbox
> qmailr   18456  0.0  0.0  1396  336 ?        S    Dec11   0:00  |   
> |       \_ qmail-rspawn
> qmailq   18457  0.0  0.0  1388  332 ?        S    Dec11   0:00  |   
> |       \_ qmail-clean
> root     25082  0.0  0.0  1388  280 ?        S    Nov12   0:00  |   \_ 
> supervise log
> qmaill   25086  0.0  0.0  1404  248 ?        S    Nov12   0:00  |   |   
> \_ /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail
> root     25083  0.0  0.0  1388  288 ?        S    Nov12   0:00  |   \_ 
> supervise qmail-smtpd
> qmaild   18449  0.0  0.0  1456  500 ?        S    Dec11   0:00  |   |   
> \_ /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -v -R -l www.ipfrontiers.com -x 
> /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c 20 -u 506 -g 505 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd
> root     25084  0.0  0.0  1388  288 ?        S    Nov12   0:00  |   \_ 
> supervise log
> qmaill   25093  0.0  0.0  1396  272 ?        S    Nov12   0:00  |       
> \_ /usr/local/bin/multilog t /var/log/qmail/smtpd
> root     24680  0.0  0.0  1380  240 ?        S    Nov12   0:00  \_ 
> readproctitle service errors:..............................
> 
> I can send mail fine and I can receive mail fine both to and from 
> external accounts.  The problem lies in the pop access.  For some reason 
> I can't telnet to port 110.  My firewall is open (for SMTP and POP3). 
>  I'd like to be able to check my email from a remote POP client, but 
> can't figure out what's wrong.  
> 
> Which qmail service handles pop3?  Does qmail handle pop3? and if not, 
> what program do I use to access my email on the linux box from another 
> machine?
> 
> Suggestions & illumination are greatly appreciated...
> -CB
> 
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