Ernest Ho Diary

1. Stop the qmail-send first:
   qmailctl stop
   or
   svc -d /service/qmail-send
2. To delete all of the message files:
   find /var/qmail/queue -type f | grep -v /lock/ | xargs rm -f
3. To rebuild the queue:
   mv /var/qmail/queue /var/qmail/queue.old
   cd /usr/local/src/qmail-1.03
   (or your original qmail source)
   make setup check
4. Restart qmail:
   qmailctl stop
   qmailctl start

Following what I typed is in red.

1. open up your command prompt
2. telnet mail.yourdomain.com 25
   You should receive a reply like:
   Trying ???.???.???.???...
   Connected to mail.yourdomain.com.
   Escape character is '^]'.
   220 mail.domain.ext ESMTP Sendmail ?version-number?; ?date+time+gmtoffset?
3. You will then need to delcare where you are sending the email from:
   HELO my.domain.nameThis should give you:
   250 mail.yourdomain.com Hello my.domain.name [loc.al.i.p], pleased to meet you.
4. Now give your email address:
   MAIL FROM: myname@yourfriend.com
   Should yeild:
   250 2.1.0 myname@yourfriend.com... Sender ok
5. Now give the recipients address:
   RCPT TO: mail@yourdomain.com
   Should yeild:
   250 2.1.0 mail@yourdomain.com... Recipient ok
6. To start composing the message issue the command DATA. If you want a subject for your email type Subject:-type subject here- then press enter twice (these are needed to conform to RFC 882):
   DATA
   Subject: just say hello to you
   
7. You may now proceed to type the body of your message (e.g. hello, how are you?)
   Hello, How are you?
8. To tell the mail server that you have completed the message enter a single "." on a line on it's own. The mail server should reply with: 250 2.0.0 ???????? Message accepted for delivery:
   .
9. You can close the connection by issuing the QUIT command.
   The mailserver should reply with something like:221 2.0.0 mail.domain.ext closing
   QUITconnection
   Connection closed by foreign host.

If you find there is a [qmail-send] [defunct] process, it may be the /var/qmail/control cannot be accessed. Please make sure you set the correct access right for those files in /var/qmail/control.