I have been running qmail for years in a production enviroment. I do run 
the relay_ctrl patches to allow auth based relaying from remote 
networks, instead of tcp.smtp editing which would become a pain with 
lots of road warriors.

Here is the power howto I wrote for installation:

http://www.drippingdead.com/howto/bsdqmail

Relay Ctrl is here ->
http://untroubled.org/relay-ctrl/

Hope this helps.
~!>D

Charles Steinkuehler wrote:

> Bradley Miller wrote:
>
>> Actually, I have all the mail files and just need the entire system 
>> brought up on my new server.  So far I've been thoroughly lost on 
>> what needs to go where and how everything is supposed to work.  I 
>> didn't install the last qmail system, so I'm flying by the seat of my 
>> pants . . . but I guess if everyone has plenty of work.  Oh well.
>
>
> I can't take on any more work right now, and don't consider myself a 
> qmail expert, but I have installed qmail several times, and even have 
> it doing site-wide filtering with SpamAssassin!
>
> If you're stuck on anything in particular, give a shout, and I (or 
> maybe one of the other folks here) can probably help.  I think there 
> are several others on-list who run qmail.
>
> Basically, you just need to compile qmail and configure your system to 
> accept connection and run the appropriate qmail programs in response. 
> Exactly how you do this depends somewhat on your particular linux 
> install, and also on what you want to use to do this (ie inetd, 
> xinetd, tcpserver, etc).
>
> Other than the basic build/install instructions that come with the 
> qmail binary, things you may want or need:
>
> - ucspi-tcp (tcpserver for launching qmail-smtp)
> - checkpassword (if you want to run the qmail pop server and 
> authenticate to the system user file in /etc/passwd)
> - daemontools (to launch qmail background processes and keep them 
> running)
> - QMAILQUEUE patch and qmail-qfilter (if you want to filter 
> system-wide mail through something like SpamAssassin or a virus 
> checker)...note you can configure per-user filtering using .qmail 
> files, by running procmail, or probably about a thousand other methods 
> that don't require patching the qmail source.
>
> Finally, you'll probably want to configure qmail to start 
> automatically when you reboot...details of doing this are distribution 
> dependent, and also depend on how you decide to launch the qmail 
> processes (ie standard init.d directories, or via daemontools).
>

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