Updating USE

If it affects glibc need to first run:



Then to upgrade all other packages run:

Installing qmail on a Gentoo system

Before installing make sure to to add qmail-spp to /etc/portage/package.use:

Stop svscan if it is already running:

Remove ssmtp (the default MTA)...



...or if upgrading qmail remove it if you want to install it from scratch:

Install the qmail packages:



Do the basic configuration (use the defaults, otherwise see the links below for more information):

To allow certain hosts to relay edit /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.qmail-smtp then re-create the cdb (see the links below for more information):

qmail uses 'maildir' format, if you want mail to arrive in ~/Mailbox you can either change the system default by commenting out the line with './.maildir/' in /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery, or you can specify a per-user override using ~/.qmail for each user:

Make sure system email addresses get forwarded to a real user (replace SOMEUSER with a real username):

Edit the configuration files in /var/qmail/control as needed, these are the minimum. You can also install SMTP plugins by copying them to /var/qmail/control/smtpplugins then enabling them in /var/qmail/control/smtpplugins.

For an internal email server you will probably want to disable 'mail from' checks (do NOT run this on an internet-facing server):

Enable outgoing, incoming and POP3 services as needed:

Finally start up svscan (qmail is invoked via the 'service scan' daemon under Gentoo) and enable svscan to start at init (if it wasn't already):

Links:

• The qmail website
• Gentoo netqmail/vpopmail Virtual Mail Hosting System Guide
• qmail SPP plugins @ sourceforge.net