I had some problems getting qpsmtpd-forkserver to run on debian. The punchline: qpsmtpd-forkserver relies on an environment variable called QPSMTPD_CONFIG, which should point to the directory containing your config files. <\/p>\n
$ export QPSMTPD_CONFIG=\/etc\/qpsmtp\r\n$ qpsmtpd-forkserver ...<\/pre>\nProblem solved.<\/p>\n
I didn’t want to run qpsmtpd for its standard usage (wrapping a mail server on the same machine), I just wanted a mail proxy that ran some code whenever any email came in, and then forward the email to a real mail server running on a different machine. qpsmtpd has a great plugin system, and was the path of least resistance. However, Debian’s qpsmtpd package<\/a> is setup to wrap another mail server running on the same machine, and its init scripts configure the QPSMTPD_CONFIG variable for you. This did not help when I tried to start qpsmtpd-forkserver on the command line. I eventually figured it out by reading through the perl code for qpsmtpd, and then the init script itself.<\/p>\n
To add insult to injury, qpsmtpd-forkserver had no way to pass the config on the command line. <\/p>\n
I don’t know if this behavior is debian-specific, or just an oversight by the qpsmtpd maintainers.<\/p>\n
At any rate, I was able to look through the code and figure it out, which is more than I can say for my latest .NET problem. The solution to that one was to speed my move to a new machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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