Install Qmail For CentOS 4.4
Installing Qmail can be troublesome at times, but they make email toasters to help speed up the process. There’s a qmailtoaster (Google for it), there’s a link on the site for a CentOS install, which downloads all the RPMs and installs it nicely for you with all the bells and whistles. Then, there’s a manual install using Bill’s Linux Qmail Toaster, and I tell you, this is the ONLY one you should bother with, for any OS, unless of course you happen to be using CentOS 4.3 - then the qmailtoaster will work fine…
If you go the route I did, to install Qmail on CentOS 4.4, you’re on the path of pain. I thought this qmailtoaster for some version of CentOS 4 would be great - the answer to my prayers. I proceeded to install the CentOS 4.3 version, while unknowingly, ignorantly using a CentOS 4.4 server. BIG MISTAKE! I was constantly in the logs, looking at tcpserver errors - “unable to allocate memory” blah blah blah. Damn! For two weeks I would clear up things with restorecon, only to find myself with libcrypto errors, and libc errors, and would try to reinstall glibc!!! It was maddening, and I found myself sinking deeper and deeper in some hole I dug, until finally…. a ray of light helped me see that I was fighting a battle that was not meant to be fought, and I had to REMOVE all remnants of Qmailtoaster and its dependencies and go with the manual, laborous instructions provided by Bill’s Qmail toaster…. if I had done this to being with, using his instructions to configure, make, and install all scripts manually, instead of using some RPM’s that came from who knows where and for whatever versions (probably CentOS 4.3….), i would have had this email setup on ONE DAY instead of 2.5 weeks!
So my point… if you have CentOS 4.4, or heck, any version of Linux, and you want to install Qmail with all the bells and whistles, use Bill’s Qmail Toaster… if you don’t, don’t go crying in the forums that something else you try isn’t working… Remember the Almo? Don’t fight that battle… go with what works!
