This HOWTO describes how to install qmail from the provided source RPM’s.
Download the following packages.
daemontools-0.70-quint1.src.rpm
supervise-scripts-3.3-quint1.src.rpm
ucspi-tcp-0.88-quint1.src.rpm
ucspi-unix-0.34-1.src.rpm
qmail-1.03+patches-quint2.src.rpm
Build the first four packages.
rpm –rebuild daemontools-0.70-2.src.rpm
rpm –rebuild supervise-scripts-3.3-quint1.src.rpm
rpm –rebuild ucspi-tcp-0.88-1.src.rpm
rpm –rebuild ucspi-unix-0.34-1.src.rpm
Install these packages and start supervise
rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/daemontools-0.70-2.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/ucspi-tcp-0.88-1.i386.rpm
rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/ucspi-unix-0.34-1.i386.rpm
rpm-Uvh/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/supervise-scripts-3.3-quint1.i386.rpm
telinit q
Finally build the qmail package and install it
rpm –rebuild qmail-1.03+patches-quint2.src.rpm
rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/qmail-1.03+patches-quint2.i386.rpm
Check the following configuration files to see if qmail found the correct domain and host names.
/etc/qmail/control/defaultdomain
/etc/qmail/control/defaulthost
/etc/qmail/control/locals
/etc/qmail/control/me
/etc/qmail/control/rcpthosts
If you changed anything in the above files use svc-restart qmail to activate the changes.
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