[9fans] 9vx and email

[9fans] 9vx and email

[hugo rivera]

Hello,
I've been searching through the man pages and 9fans archive and I am
unable to figure out how to correctly setup plan9 to read and write
mail. I've added my mail servers in different places (i.e.
/rc/bin/termrc, /lib/ndb/local, /mail/lib/rewrite.gateway), ran
factotum, ran upas/fs but I'm unable to read or write mail. Can anyone
point me in the right direction?
saludos,

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Hugo

Re: [9fans] 9vx and email

[erik quanstrom]

> I've been searching through the man pages and 9fans archive and I am
> unable to figure out how to correctly setup plan9 to read and write
> mail. I've added my mail servers in different places (i.e.
> /rc/bin/termrc, /lib/ndb/local, /mail/lib/rewrite.gateway), ran
> factotum, ran upas/fs but I'm unable to read or write mail. Can anyone
> point me in the right direction?

i think you want "rewrite" not "rewrite.gateway".  the should
be seen as alternates of the same file, not different working files.

here are the files that i know we've modified here, all
in /mail/lib
- qmail
- remotemail
- rewrite
- smtpd.conf
it's helpful in debugging to make sure the log files
/sys/log/^(smtp smtpd mail smtp.fail) all exist.

- erik

Re: [9fans] 9vx and email

[Russ Cox]

your subject says 9vx and email, but your message
didn't mention 9vx.  assuming you are actually using
9vx, it's important to note that the mail system depends
heavily on lock files, and the #Z file system in 9vx,
which is what gives you access to the host file system,
does not support lock files.  you'll only get the right
behavior if you're using a native plan 9 file system like
fossil or kfs or a network connection to one of those
to hold the /mail/queue directory tree.

russ

Re: [9fans] 9vx and email

[hugo rivera]

yes, I meant 9vx. So I'll try to do it with p9p's mailfs.
Thanks.

2010/3/18 Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>:
> your subject says 9vx and email, but your message
> didn't mention 9vx.  assuming you are actually using
> 9vx, it's important to note that the mail system depends
> heavily on lock files, and the #Z file system in 9vx,
> which is what gives you access to the host file system,
> does not support lock files.  you'll only get the right
> behavior if you're using a native plan 9 file system like
> fossil or kfs or a network connection to one of those
> to hold the /mail/queue directory tree.
>
> russ
>
>



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Hugo