From b732a73bc773789894466b0e5320b2f1fe42c7e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Denker Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 18:58:45 -0700 Subject: original, as downloaded from http://www.qmail.org/netqmail-1.06.tar.gz --- INSTALL.ctl | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+) create mode 100644 INSTALL.ctl (limited to 'INSTALL.ctl') diff --git a/INSTALL.ctl b/INSTALL.ctl new file mode 100644 index 0000000..00ce689 --- /dev/null +++ b/INSTALL.ctl @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +As you've seen, qmail has essentially no pre-compilation configuration. +You should never have to recompile it unless you want to change the +qmail home directory, usernames, or uids. + +qmail does allow quite a bit of easy post-installation configuration. If +you care how your machine greets other machines via SMTP, for example, +you can put an appropriate line into /var/qmail/control/smtpgreeting. + +But this is all optional---if control/smtpgreeting doesn't exist, qmail +will do something reasonable by default. You shouldn't worry much about +configuration right now. You can always come back and tune things later. + +There's one big exception. You MUST tell qmail your hostname. Just run +the config-fast script: + + # ./config-fast your.full.host.name + +config-fast puts your.full.host.name into control/me. It also puts it +into control/locals and control/rcpthosts, so that qmail will accept +mail for your.full.host.name. + +You can instead use the config script, which looks up your host name in +DNS: + + # ./config + +config also looks up your local IP addresses in DNS to decide which +hosts to accept mail for. + +(Why doesn't qmail do these lookups on the fly? This was a deliberate +design decision. qmail does all its local functions---header rewriting, +checking if a recipient is local, etc.---without talking to the network. +The point is that qmail can continue accepting and delivering local mail +even if your network connection goes down.) + +Next, read through FAQ for information on setting up optional features +like masquerading. If you really want to learn right now what all the +configuration possibilities are, see qmail-control.0. -- cgit v1.2.3