El Tue, 15-01-2002 a las 15:08, Mike Garabedian escribi?: Help...I am trying to set up qmail on my linux server and nothing seems to go right. Don't hesitate. qmail would seem the first time a bit messing; but I assure you that if you would want to install sendmail from the sources too, you would give up from the first time. And congratulations for choosing the mest MTA in the world :-P Could someone tell me the best way for a common install of qmail. If you don't want to do things too much complicated, try downloading the whole package "qinstall" at http://freshmeat.net/projects/qinstall/ or http://obua.org/ with all necessary software for installing qmail in a very easy way: smtp, pop, vpopmail (virtual pop3 server for qmail) and sqwebmail, (webmail for vpopmail) from a graphical frontend very intuitive to "play" with. But Josh mail is also very explicative and can also help you a lot: Life with qmail was my first and only doc to read to get installed qmail in a easy and reliable way. Go step by step and in less time you can expecte you will have installed qmail in your suse linux box. Being secure and stable. the directions are confusing. Do I remove sendmail first or not. Well, if your sendmail is now working in a productive manner (serving mails to your clients or friends), it's obvious you cannot. But Life with qmail explains how and when to do it. Do I use Maildir or Mbox? It's your choice! qmail can work with mailbox, mbox and maildir; but maildir is the most reliable and secure mailbox type. What are the daemon tools for or does suse already have it, Daemontools (as Josh has explained very precisely for you) is a set of tools to manage processes: very important to install in order to get a right installation and performance of qmail. You can have it from: http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html (0.76 version). If you have problems to install this one, please, don't hesitate to email me. does Apache need to run in order for it to work. No, no, no. You will never need Apache to run qmail, vpopmail and sqwebmail, in a "home use". Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be helpful to SuSE users and everybody! Bye! Plus, I already have a server up and runniing with qmail. Is there a way for me to copy all the settings from that server and place it on a new box No, it's the best way not to interchange data between two qmail servers, as Maildir mailbox, for instance, uses inodes of your hard disk to store messages depending very much on them. Thanks. the Gspot -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com -- ALEJANDRO ORTEGA PÁEZ aortega@nostracom.com - Systems Adm. Nostracom "Always running SuSE Linux from 5.1..."