Running qmail

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-12-19 11:54, Gojyo <gojyo83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> it seems that I have a issue with qmail itself.
> Now I'm trying running it without daemontools (I can configure them later,
> and, as Svein Halvor said, qmail should run as well without).
> Now, /usr/local/etc/rc.d/qmail links correctly to /var/qmail/rc, which is a
> copy of /var/qmail/boot/maildir.
> At boot, the script is executed, and ps -A|grep qmail returns me this:
>
> 485 con- I      0:00.04 qmail-send
>   501 con- I      0:00.01 splogger qmail
>   502 con- I      0:00.01 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/
>   503 con- I      0:00.01 qmail-rspawn
>   504 con- I      0:00.01 qmail-clean
>   606  p0  S+     0:00.01 grep qmail
>
> However, no service is listening on port 25, as "sockstat -4l" tells me.
> I've tryed using the others /var/qmail/boot scripts, but it's the same.

That's because qmail-smtpd hasn't started.

You have to do that separately from qmail-lspawn and qmail-rspawn.