Bug 17957 – New ebuild: mini-qmail-0.52.ebuild

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description Dave Love 2003-03-21 16:08:33 UTC]

This ebuild provides a mini-qmail installation.  This provides a virtual/mta for
clients which forward all mail to a centralized qmail server for processing. 
This differs from the ssmtp package in that it uses qmail's QMQP protocol rather
than smtp.

See http://cr.yp.to/qmail/mini.html for more information.

[Comment 1 Dave Love 2003-03-21 16:10:02 UTC]

Created attachment 9675 [details]
mini-qmail-0.52.ebuild

ebuild for mini-qmail

[Comment 2 Dave Love 2003-03-21 16:10:57 UTC]

Created attachment 9676 [details]
mini-qmail/files/0.52/99mini-qmail

env.d file which protects (CONFIG_PROTECT) /var/mini-qmail/control

[Comment 3 Dave Love 2003-03-21 16:11:56 UTC]

Created attachment 9677 [details]
mini-qmail/files/errno.patch

patch to fix errno problems with qmail and the latest glibc

[Comment 4 Dave Love 2003-03-22 10:20:55 UTC]

One thing I forgot.  Unlike qmail, mini-qmail doesn't require any new passwd or group entries (qmaild, qmails, qmaill, etc.).  No daemons are run and no setuid executables are required for mini-qmail, so all the qmail password entries are unnecessary.

[Comment 5 Robin Johnson 2003-08-04 21:52:41 UTC]

Ok, I played with this, and dug around at it.

I then recalled seeing a better implementation of the idea and dug it up, and added that to portage instead.
It is 'nullmailer' by Bruce Guenter.

I strongly recommend that you look at that instead.

(I'm now using nullmailer instead of ssmtp on 12 production servers, with no problems at all.)

[Comment 6 Dave Love 2003-08-05 06:15:50 UTC]

Looks like a great solution!

I'm installing it now, but it certainly looks much, much cleaner than the mini-qmail hack.

Thanks!