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- As you've seen, qmail has essentially no pre-compilation configuration.
- You should never have to recompile it unless you want to change the
- qmail home directory, usernames, or uids.
-
- qmail does allow quite a bit of easy post-installation configuration. If
- you care how your machine greets other machines via SMTP, for example,
- you can put an appropriate line into /var/qmail/control/smtpgreeting.
-
- But this is all optional---if control/smtpgreeting doesn't exist, qmail
- will do something reasonable by default. You shouldn't worry much about
- configuration right now. You can always come back and tune things later.
-
- There's one big exception. You MUST tell qmail your hostname. The easy
- way to do this is to run the qmail-config script:
-
- # ./qmail-config
-
- qmail-config finds your fully-qualified hostname in DNS and puts it into
- control/me. It also selects good defaults for a few other controls.
-
- (Why doesn't qmail do these lookups on the fly? This was a deliberate
- design decision. qmail does all its local functions---header rewriting,
- checking if a recipient is local, etc.---without talking to the network.
- The point is that qmail can continue accepting and delivering local mail
- even if your network connection goes down.)
-
- Next, read through FAQ for information on setting up optional features
- like masquerading. If you really want to learn right now what all the
- configuration possibilities are, see qmail-control.0.
-