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authorilja <ilja@7b491191-dbf0-0310-aff6-d879d4d69008>2004-05-25 10:27:28 +0000
committerilja <ilja@7b491191-dbf0-0310-aff6-d879d4d69008>2004-05-25 10:27:28 +0000
commit73ca6bb7025288aa51b18f51cf990e2592273269 (patch)
treee5de3871e7b7b8ad0e9581c0d95b2f8ed0b6d6de /INSTALL
parent55a07b2106543400fcc4d27eb2a394895cd534fd (diff)
change by Dan Weber:
make install now installs executables in /usr/local/sbin This obsoletes install-dbmail.sh, which has been removed. INSTALL has been updated in this respect. git-svn-id: https://svn.ic-s.nl/svn/dbmail/trunk/dbmail@1142 7b491191-dbf0-0310-aff6-d879d4d69008
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+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -82,8 +82,9 @@ What do you need?
for these databases are.
After running configure, a 'make all' should suffice to build the executables.
- Running install-dbmail.sh will install the executables in /usr/local/sbin
+ running 'make install' will install the executables in /usr/local/sbin
+
4. Create users in the dbmail system
Next you will need to create some users into the dbmail mailing sytem.
@@ -107,11 +108,7 @@ What do you need?
The @net.com is a fallback alias. This means that all mail that cannot be delivered to
an existing alias for a @net.com address will sent to john.
-5.
- Become root and run install-dbmail.sh, it will install the dbmail executables.
- This is not necessary if you have installed the binaries at step 4.
-
-6. Configure your MTA
+5. Configure your MTA
There are two ways to connect your MTA to DBMail. The MTA can start a
dbmail-smtp process and pipe SMTP commands and messages to it, or it can
@@ -142,7 +139,7 @@ What do you need?
If your MTA supports LMTP for delivery, setup should be quite straightforward.
-7. Setting up the maintenance run
+6. Setting up the maintenance run
The dbmail daemons and the smtp injector itself will never actually delete
mail from the database. The only program that will do this is the
@@ -157,21 +154,21 @@ What do you need?
0 3 * * * /usr/local/sbin/dbmail-maintenance -cfpd >> /dev/null 2>&1
-8. Starting the servers
+7. Starting the servers
If you want users to be able to retrieve email via IMAP or POP3, run
dbmail-imapd and/or dbmail-pop3d
-9. Problems
+8. Problems
--------
For problems you can subscribe to the dbmail mailinglist:
http://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
Please always check the archives first.
- or check out the dbmailwebsite at http://www.dbmail.org.
+ or check out the dbmail website at http://www.dbmail.org.
- Please note that DBMail logs a lot of relevant data to the maillog (mostly
+ Please note that DBMail logs a lot of relevant data to the maillog (often
located at /var/log/maillog or /var/log/mail.log). This can help you often
if something is not working, e.g. if there's no connection to the database.