[olug] help with qmail?

Brian Roberson brian at bstc.net
Fri Nov 17 07:17:31 UTC 2000


Side note.... Qmail..... the "BIG" picture:

http://www.nrg4u.com/



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Roberson" <brian at bstc.net>
To: <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 1:15 AM
Subject: Re: [olug] help with qmail?


> If all you want to do is change the source of the email to foo.com ( e.g.
> `echo "BLAH" | mail someuser at somedomain ` ) looks as it came from
> you at foo.com ....
> put "foo.com" in the file /var/qmail/control/defaultdomain and
> /var/qmail/control/defaulthost .
> 
> 
> ahh.. the control files... I know the answer to just about everything you
> could ever dream about regarding qmail... ask away ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <puzzled at home.com>
> To: <olug at bstc.net>
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 5:21 PM
> Subject: [olug] help with qmail?
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >          I am wrestling with qmail and could really use a nudge in the
> > right direction.
> >
> >         I've discovered /var/qmail/control and I can send/receive but I
> > am having a lot of trouble with what the control files do and making it
> > all fit with DNS.
> >
> >        I own pensat.com, pensat.net, 6network.com, and 6network.net. I
> > need to make this box answer for all of 6network.* and pensat.net. I
> > believe I've got DNS done up correctly and I've changed
> > /var/qmail/control/defaulthost to 6network.com but its still spitting
> > out blackbox.pensat.com as the source of any email. I've edited &
> > restarted DNS and that is fine ... I suspect its still using the
> > hostname from /etc/rc.conf but I ought to be able to control this via
> > some setting which is escaping me.
> >
> >     I've RTFM'd until I am cross eyed and I'm a few minutes shortly of
> > actually groveling since I need this running for some other stuff I am
> > doing.
> >
> >      Anyone? Hello?
> >
> >
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