First let me say That LINUX SUCKS and it never works!!! now... qmail. I read the faq, I bought 2 books (qmail handbook and running qmail) and IT DOES NOT WORK!!!! Running red hat 7.2... got the service running ... can send messages, BUT...multilog is not working (i look in the /var/log/qmail directory, but nothing is there) and I can't do this... telnet 127.0.0.1
getting connection refused from local host
yes, I edited the /etc/tcp.smtp! WTF??!! following the book STEP BY STEP and IT WON'T WORK!!!! I've only have about 40HRS into it...someone please help!!!!

I understand your fury mate. My suggestion is to get on the net' and download Netscape 6.2 for linux, it loads up real fast, and has everything at your finger tips. I didnt find qmail very user friendly either, even though i have gotten it to work.

ok, you're obviously a prat.

if you ask NICE questions, POLITELY, you'll get answers. I know i can tell you how to fix most of that, but i'm not gonna, and I'd recommend no one else does personally.

well i feel like being alittle nice, and pointing out a key thing or two here.

first did you enable telnet in xinetd/inetd(whichever you are using)? secondly since you seem to being try to get mail working, i'm assuming your trying to telnet into your mail server to check it, you might want to specifiy a smtp, or pop3 port with the local address, instead of just telnetting blindly to your local ip.

Thanx for the reply's... no, I'm not telneting blindly... I did enable it in /etc/xinetd and I can telnet into the system, but not to port 25. I could do it when sendmail was installed, but I uninstalled it and installed q-mail.

then why you using it.. you don't seem happy with it, then don't use it...

Yeah right I dont even know how to use Linux that well and it doesnt suck it rules! i bow down to it..no but about ur problem sorry i cant help i cant even setup my mail either...sorry but Linux still rules

What is the advantage over sendmail?

One problem is, 'hacker wannabes' seem to think you can only hack with linux, so they get it, they dont know what to do, and cry about it.

script kiddie find's out that linux thing
kiddie wants linux
kiddie gets linux
kiddie installs linux
kiddie finds linux isn't psychic, and can't do what they want it to via ESP alone
kiddie can't understand that they need to actually know stuff to get the results
kiddie goes back to windows

I don't know how to do all that much with linux given what it can do, but i acknowledge that fact...

david- generally sendmail is considered obtuse and nasty. the config files are horrendous if you've tried to get sendmail going how you want it to. qmail, postfix etc are generally more logical to configure etc... sendmail is only still around cos it was the first successful mail server way back when. it's gonna die out in the future i'd guess. Mandrake doesn't even included ontheir cd's...

boy, I think the Internet is huge enough to find real good documentation about what you need.

dixi

I guess qmail will be my next step up

i think this thread just went off course... hmmm.. leave open or close.. ??

http://www.qmailtheeasyway.com/

As far as port 25, you don't need telnet running. the qmail-smtp daemon needs to be running and it's not (that, simply, is the problem.)

csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &'

will start the qmail-smtp process. Put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.

Load windows and try and use Exchange sometime. You think Linux and Qmail are bad...