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Setting up Qmail

Here I try to provide a step-by-step guide to the succesful installation, configuration and usage of Qmail on OpenBSD.

>Installation

1. Unpack the distribution source code:
   cd /tmp
tar xvpfz /location/of/netqmail-1.04.tar.gz
cd netqmail-1.04
collate.sh
Note: watch for errors that collate.sh might produce.
2. Create the «home» directorie for Qmail:
   mkdir /var/qmail

3. Next we have to create some user and group accounts. Edit/etc/master.passwd to look like this:
   alias:*:100:101::0:0:Qmail-alias:/var/qmail/alias:/bin/true
qmaild:*:101:101::0:0:Qmail-qmaild:/var/qmail:/bin/true
qmaill:*:102:101::0:0:Qmail-qmaill:/var/qmail:/bin/true
qmailp:*:103:101::0:0:Qmail-qmailp:/var/qmail:/bin/true
qmailq:*:104:100::0:0:Qmail-qmailq:/var/qmail:/bin/true
qmailr:*:105:100::0:0:Qmail-qmailr:/var/qmail:/bin/true
qmails:*:106:100::0:0:Qmail-qmails:/var/qmail:/bin/true

   Then add two new groups to /etc/group:
   qmail:*:100:
nofiles:*:101:

4. Now we're ready to build Qmail from source:
   cd /tmp/netqmail-1.04/netqmail-1.04
make setup check
./config

   If config can't determine your hostname, you can tip it by running:
   ./config-fast mail.purebsd.com

5. More coming soon!

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