How to install qmail-conf
Changes from previous versions of qmail-conf
How to set up a qmail delivery service
How to set up a qmail SMTP service
How to set up a qmail POP3 service
How to set up a qmail QMQP service
How to set up a qmail QMTP service
The qmail-delivery-conf program
The qmail-pop3d-conf program
The qmail-qmqpd-conf program
The qmail-qmtpd-conf program
The qmail-smtpd-conf program
qmail-conf is a collection of tools for setting up various qmail services. They are like *-conf programs in djbdns.
With qmail-conf, for example, setting up a minimal SMTP service takes the following four steps:
qmail-smtpd-conf qmaild qmaill /var/qmail/service/smtpd
cd /var/qmail/service/smtpd
make
ln -s /var/qmail/service/smtpd /service
qmail-conf assumes that (recent versions of) daemontools and ucspi-tcp have already been installed. It also assumes that svscan is already running.
qmail-conf tries to provide reasonable defaults: it avoids DNS reverse lookups; it avoids IDENT lookups; it lets TCP connection attempts be logged with multilog; and for POP3 and QMQP, connection attempts are denied unless you explicitly authorize your clients.
qmail-conf reduces the need for editing ./run scripts by using envdir. For example, to raise the concurrency limit for the SMTP connection to 100, all you have to do is:
echo 100 > /service/smtpd/env/CONCURRENCY
svc -t /service/smtpd
qmail-conf does not help you set up /var/qmail/alias, /var/qmail/control, /var/qmail/rc, and /var/qmail/users.