mail server setup

If you setup mail server using dynamic DNS and your IP address is listed in DUL(Dialup User List) and rejected to deliver e-mail, please try following setting.

Make smtproutes file under /var/qmail/control and write : following your ISP smtp server name. If you want perfect setting add one more file defaulthost and write ISP's domain name in it. For me, daily log mail goes to ISP and rejected because of no user there so I do not set later yet.

01/02/2006

Install qmail.

First of all let's get source file and patch.

ftp://ftp.jp.qmail.org/qmail/qmail-1.03.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.nlc.net.au/pub/unix/mail/qmail/qmail-date-localtime.patch
http://www.qmail.org/moni.csi.hu/pub/glibc-2.3.1/qmail-1.03.errno.patch

qmail-date-localtime.patch matches the date and time information which is written in header to local time.
qmail-1.03.errno.patch is a patch for compile error when using latest glibc(after 2.3.1) on Redhat8.0 and Redhat9 because of the manipuration of 'errno'.

Extract the downloaded file and patch it.

# tar xvfz qmail-1.03.tar.gz
# cd qmail-1.03/
# patch -p1 < ../qmail-date-localtime.patch
# patch -p1 < ../qmail-1.03.errno.patch

Before compile make the destination of installation and users and group which are needed to operate qmail.

# mkdir /var/qmail
# groupadd nofiles
# useradd -g nofiles -d /var/qmail/alias -s /bin/false alias
# useradd -g nofiles -d /var/qmail -s /bin/false qmaild
# useradd -g nofiles -d /var/qmail -s /bin/false qmaill
# useradd -g nofiles -d /var/qmail -s /bin/false qmailp
# groupadd qmail
# useradd -g qmail -d /var/qmail -s /bin/false qmailq
# useradd -g qmail -d /var/qmail -s /bin/false qmailr
# useradd -g qmail -d /var/qmail -s /bin/false qmails

Now compile and configure it.

# make setup
# make check
# ./config-fast c-24-98-186-238.atl.client2.attbi.com

At this time 5 files have been made in /var/qmail/control. You can change their contents for your requirement.

Then prepare for start up. At first setting of deliver to important accounts such as postmaster, MAILER-DAEMON and root.

# cd /var/qmail/alias
# touch .qmail-postmaster .qmail-mailer-daemon .qmail-root
# chmod 644 .qmail*

Now the male to postmaster, MAILER-DAEMON and root is saved at /var/qmail/alias

If sendmail is already running, you need to stop sendmail. And also remove from rc3.d and rc5.d. You can do it from service setting gui. If you don't know ask me.

Concerning about the mail command or CGI script access /usr/lib/sendmail directory, replace the sendmail command to sendmail wrapper.

# cd /usr/sbin
# mv sendmail sendmail.dist
# chmod 0 sendmail.dist
# ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail

Copy /var/qmail/boot/home to /var/qmail as rc.

# cp /var/qmail/boot/home /var/qmail/rc

Then modify the contents of rc as follows.

qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail -> qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail

You need to create Maildir directory by yourself.

# /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake ~alias/Maildir
# chown -R alias /var/qmail/alias/Maildir

and using each user account

$ /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake ~/Maildir

or root can make it instead of user. When you make as root, change the Maildir directory owner to each user using chown.
For new user, put the Maildir template to /etc/skel directory which automatically create the Maildir directory when you create the new user using adduser command. Actually do following.

# /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake /etc/skel/Maildir

Install tcpserver
Get the source file from

ftp://ftp.jp.qmail.org/qmail/ucspi-tcp-0.88.tar.gz

then

# tar xvfz ../ucspi-tcp-0.88.tar.gz
# cd ucspi-tcp-0.88/
# make setup check

Now make the file which is base of cdb. Here, make as tcp.smtp file in /etc directory.

# vi /etc/tcp.smtp

192.168.0.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""

Then create the cdb file. cdb file is made by following command.

# /usr/local/bin/tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp < /etc/tcp.smtp

pop server setup

pop3 daemon has been installed at qmail installation, but this daemon dose not have authentication so that we use the checkpassword. Download and install it.

http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd/checkpassword-0.90.tar.gz

$ tar xvfz checkpassword-0.90.tar.gz
$ cd checkpassword-0.90
$ make
# make setup check

Installation of relay-ctrl
At this time, you can send a mail from inside of domain but you can not send it from outside dialup etc. So, we introduce pop before smtp scheme.
Begin by download and install daemontools and a patch which is used by relay-ctrl.

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools/install.html
http://www.qmail.org/moni.csi.hu/pub/glibc-2.3.1/daemontools-0.76.errno.patch

$ tar xvzf daemontools-0.76.tar.gz
$?cd admin/daemontools-0.76
$ patch -p1 < ../daemontools-0.76.errno.patch
# package/install

Now the envdir command is installed in /usr/local/bin but this installation only make the link to your original installation place, so that please copy the command by manually.
Then download and install the relay-cntl

http://untroubled.org/relay-ctrl/

$ tar xvzf relay-ctrl-3.1.1.tar.gz
$ cd relay-ctrl-3.1.1
$ make
# mkdir /usr/local/man
# ./installer

Then make directory which save IP addresses of pop3 access.

# mkdir /var/qmail/relay-ctrl
# mkdir /var/qmail/relay-ctrl/spool
# chgrp -R qmail /var/qmail/relay-ctrl
# chmod 700 /var/qmail/relay-ctrl
# chmod 777 /var/qmail/relay-ctrl/spool

Next, make environment directory of relay-ctrl.

# mkdir /etc/relay-ctrl
# echo "/var/qmail/relay-ctrl/spool" > /etc/relay-ctrl/RELAY_CTRL_DIR

Then setup the cron which deletes IP address in /var/qmail/relay-ctrl/spool after 15min.

# crontab -e

then add following line, save and exit like vi.

* * * * * /usr/local/bin/envdir /etc/relay-ctrl /usr/local/bin/relay-ctrl-age

Start up script
Finally we make qmail start up script as follows. Change the italic type part to your configuration.

#!/bin/sh
#
# qmail: /var/qmail
PATH=/var/qmail/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin

[ -f /var/qmail/rc ] || exit 0

case "$1" in
start)
# Start daemons.
echo "Starting qmail."
csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &'
envdir /etc/relay-ctrl relay-ctrl-chdir \
tcpserver -v -u [qmail group ID] -g [nofiles group ID] -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb \
0 smtp relay-ctrl-check \
/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd 2>&1 | /var/qmail/bin/splogger smtpd 3 &
envdir /etc/relay-ctrl relay-ctrl-chdir \
tcpserver -v 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup \
[server FQID] /bin/checkpassword \
relay-ctrl-allow /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir 2>&1 \
| /var/qmail/bin/splogger pop3d 3 &
echo
touch /var/lock/qmail
;;
stop)
# Stop daemons.
echo "Shutting down qmail."
PID=`/bin/ps -aefw | grep qmail | awk '{print $2}'`
if [ ! -z "$PID" ] ; then
/bin/kill ${PID} 1> /dev/null 2>&1
fi
echo
rm -f /var/lock/qmail
;;

restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;
*)
echo "Usage: S83qmail {start|stop|restart}"
exit 1
esac

exit 0

Then copy this qmail file to /etc/rc.d/init.d and make link.

# ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S83qmail
# ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S83qmail

Now we have finished all the settings. Start qmail and test it.

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail start

$ telenet localhost 110

and if you get

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
+OK <1498.1013146645@your servei?’ FQDN>

congratulations! pop3 is now running.
Then input

user popusername

+OK

pass yourpassword

+OK

then input

quit

then confirm there is the file named 127.0.0.1 in /var/qmail/relay-ctrl/spool and it is removed after 15min. Next, access pop server using your host name. If it takes long time to connect server, you need set up DNS server.

That's all.

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