qmail-src update

[Tom Allison]

Attached is the specifics of what I was able to do in order to get the 
qmail deb package to work so far.
It's not perfect, but at this point in time, I have no conflicts or 
errors in the Deb Packages, exim is gone, and qmail is running.

My DNS is another matter, but that's for tomorrow, I think.
Title: Installing Qmail on Debian
 


Installing Qmail on Debian
Steps I took to set up qmail on debian distro (2.2r2 - testing)
exim and qmail packages conflict.  So first you have to remove the exim package.  This in turn removes a bunch of others:

  mutt
  anacron
  cron
  procmail
  at
  mail
  logrotate
  squid

I went ahead and used dselect to add the ucspi-tcp-src and qmail-src packages
Next, you have to build-ucspi-tcp and build-qmail

  build-ucspi-tcp
  This went with the defaults without incident
  build-qmail
  This started out OK, but the dependencies are toast!
  


Fixing for qmail installation
Start with dpkg -i --force-depends qmail_1.03-20_i386.deb and you die because of the inetd.conf entries.  Fix this by editing /etc/inetd.conf to remove the line for smtp.  Do not comment (#) it out as that's not what it says to do!

try doing it again...
got pissed and tried: dpkg -P --force-depends exim because qmail was still crying about exim shit.  After this I nuke the /etc/ppp and /etc/exim directories as well.
tried: dpkg -i --force-depends qmail_1.03-20_i386.deb again and this time it worked.  I had a hard error that went like:

Sorry, I couldn't find your host's canonical name in DNS.
You will have to set up /var/qmail/control/me yourself.
Starting mail-transfer agent: qmail.


I think it's working, But I have to fix my DNS first.  exim is not purged from the system and I can remove the holds (=) from the above listed packages and they work, so far.





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