Bug 61199

Summary:	qmail + tcpserver doesn't work
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Tom Gall (RETIRED) <tgall>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Net-Mail Packages <net-mail+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Tom Gall (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-08-21 14:37:06 UTC

Greetings.

While setting qmail and tcpserver following this bit of documentation:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/home-router-howto.xml

the tcpserver would constantly fail out saying it couldn't figure out what smtp port was:

tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for smtp

yet if I start tcpserver by hand and avoid svscan entirely it works

I think /service + svscan etc etc isn't setup right. The upstream docs here appear to be correct:

http://www.palomine.net/qmail/selectiverelay.html

Comment 1 Robin Johnson archtester

2004-08-21 17:42:08 UTC

the only reason it should give "tcpserver: fatal: unable to figure out port number for smtp" is that your /etc/services is borked go and check it.
perhaps you've changed nsswitch?

Comment 2 Robin Johnson archtester

2004-12-09 12:50:20 UTC

no response from user