Qmail Toaster for Red Hat 9
Compliments of Miguel Biccari
Last updated September 27, 2003
nick@ndhsoft.com

Be sure to check out the mailing lists and archives at:
 

http://www.qmailtoaster.com
 

Also, these very good sites:

Topacio SmartSite INSTALL

and

Mark Patrick's Red Hat 8.0 Install

 

Qmail Toaster installation:

Check to insure that you have the following packages installed:

• crontabs
• expect
• freetype, freetype-devel
• gd, gd-devel
• gdbm, gdbm-devel
• httpd, httpd-devel
• libjpeg, libjpeg-devel
• libpng, libpng-devel
• mrtg
• mysql, msql-devel, mysql-server
• openssl, openssl-devel
• pam-devel
• php, php-devel, php-imap
• zlib-devel

    Click here to see my install
 

Remove sendmail, postfix & imap:

rpm -e –-nodeps sendmail sendmail-cf imap postfix fetchmail mutt

Make a dir to hold the files (/usr/src/qmailtoaster).

Go to http://qmailtoaster.clikka.com and download all the source rpms for the latest stable version of Qmail Toaster.
 

• Be sure your hostname and DNS are setup properly:
  
   
• Be sure you have downloaded qmailmrtg-toaster-3.4-1.0.7.src.rpm
  
   

• Create mysql administrative account:

     mysqladmin -u root password yourpassword

     mysqladmin -u root -p reload

     mysqladmin -u root -p refresh

   

• The source files must be compiled and installed in this exact order.
  
   
• Compile and install daemontools-toaster:
  
     rpmbuild -–rebuild -–with rht90 daemontools*.src.rpm
  
  Note: If you have errors, check the error to see what package you need to install to satisfy the dependencies and do so. If all is well, then:
  
     Go to /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 and install the package:
  
     rpm –ivh daemontools*.rpm
  
   
• Compile and install ucspi-tcp-toaster.
  
   
• Compile qmail-toaster, but only install qmail-toaster and qmail-toaster-doc, do not install qmail-pop3d-toaster until after vpopmail-toaster is installed. (Take note of the installation message)
  
   
• Compile and install vpopmail-toaster. (Take note of the installation message)
  
   
• Install qmail-pop3d-toaster.
  
   
• Create a database named "vpopmail":

     mysqladmin create vpopmail -u root -p

     mysqladmin -u root -p reload

     mysqladmin -u root -p refresh
  
   

• Set password for vpopmail the same as in /var/qmail/control/sql:

     Make the password anything you want.  Edit sql . . .

     echo "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON vpopmail.* TO vpopmail@localhost
     IDENTIFIED BY 'SsEeCcRrEeTt'" | mysql -u root -p

     mysqladmin -u root -p reload

     mysqladmin -u root -p refresh
  
   

• Compile and install courier-imap-toaster.
  
  (Note: This compile takes a while)
  
   
• Compile and install autorespond-toaster.
  
   
• Compile and install maildrop-toaster.
  
   
• Compile and install control-panel-toaster.
  
  (Take note of the installation message)
  
  (Note: these rpms are compiled in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch)
  
   
• Compile and install ezmlm-toaster.
  
   
• Compile and install qmailadmin-toaster.
  
   
• Compile and update qmailmrtg-toaster.
  
  (Note: rpm –Uvh qmailmrtg*.rpm - updates mrtg)

   

• Compile and install vqadmin-toaster.
  
   
• Compile and install horde-toaster.
  
  (Note: these rpms are compiled in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch)
  
   
• Check to see if qmail is running:

     service qmail start

     service qmail stat
  
   

• Edit /etc/php.ini and set:

     short_open_tag = On

     register_globals = On
  
   

• Edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf:
  
     LimitRequestBody 2097152 (allow 2MB attachments)
  
   
• Edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

     DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.php
  
   

• Install the latest version of Pear (Horde needs this):

     http://www.horde.org/pear/

     extract it to /usr/share/pear
  
   

• Restart httpd:

     apachectl restart
  
   

• Open admin-toaster:

     Browser to http://yourdomain/admin-toaster/

     Username: admin

     Password: toaster

     Add your domain and a user
  
   

• Open horde-toaster:

     Browse to http://yourdomain/horde-toaster/

     Login as user@yourdomain
   

That should do it . . .

Here are some things to make life a little easier:

• Root messages sent to your email address:

      vi /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root

      replace &nobody with &you@yourdomain.com
 

• Qmail control in path:

      ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/qmail /usr/bin/qmailctl

      qmailctl {start|stop|restart|doqueue|reload|stat|pause|cont|cdb|queue|help}
 

• Customize Horde:
   

     vi /path-to/htdocs/horde/imp/config/trailer.txt

      edit or eliminate email footer text as you desire

Nick Hemmesch

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