Recompile qmail How-To?

[DeanW]

I need help recompiling qmail...

Plesk 8 qmail patches
Plesk v7.5.4 qmail patches
qmail 1.03 source

Downloaded all to /usr/src

tar xzf qmail-1.03.tar.gz
tar xzf qmail_patches.tar.gz

As per this article I attempted to add the patches...

cd qmail-1.03
for d in ../qmail-patches/patch*; do patch <"$d"; done

Then compile qmail...

make setup check

I get an error

./chkspawn
Oops. Your system's FD_SET() has a hidden limit of 1024 descriptors.
This means that the qmail daemons could crash if you set the run-time
concurrency higher than 509. So I'm going to insist that the concurrency
limit in conf-spawn be at most 509. Right now it's 1000.
make: *** [spawn.o] Error 1

So I modify conf-spawn to 509 instead of 1000...

make setup check

I get an error

./compile qmail-remote.c
In file included from qmail-remote.c:53:
tls.h:4:25: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory
In file included from qmail-remote.c:53:
tls.h:7: error: syntax error before '*' token
tls.h:7: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
tls.h:9: error: syntax error before '*' token
In file included from qmail-remote.c:54:
ssl_timeoutio.h:4:25: openssl/ssl.h: No such file or directory
ssl_timeoutio.h:8:3: #error "Need OpenSSL version at least 0.9.6"

Checked for openssl

rpm -qa | grep openssl
openssl-0.9.7a-35

Of course I have openssl, but apparently need libs from somewhere...

Downloaded openssl source corresponding to my RPM version from here.

Created the apparent folder

mkdir openssl

Copied the 'include' files...

cd openssl
cp -L /usr/src/openssl-0.9.7a/include/openssl/* .

And still the same error about not being able to find include files in the openssl dir... I checked the conf-* files and there are no config options for this dir... also it concerns me that the users in conf-users are not the same plesk uses - won't this break things?

Thanks for any direction.

 

[rev606]

Try installing the openssl-devel RPM.

 

[DeanW]

Thanks for the tip. I did that:

yum install openssl-devel

rpm -qa | grep openssl

openssl-0.9.7a-35
openssl-devel-0.9.7a-35

cd /usr/src/qmail-1.03
make clean

removed my old openssl botched attempt..

rm -rf openssl

make setup check

Still getting an error

./load qmail-remote control.o constmap.o timeoutread.o \
timeoutwrite.o timeoutconn.o tcpto.o now.o dns.o ip.o \
tls.o ssl_timeoutio.o `cat ssl.lib` \
ipalloc.o ipme.o quote.o ndelay.a case.a sig.a open.a \
lock.a seek.a getln.a stralloc.a alloc.a substdio.a error.a \
str.a fs.a auto_qmail.o `cat dns.lib` `cat socket.lib`
cat: ssl.lib: No such file or directory
qmail-remote.o(.text+0xac9): In function `tls_init':
...errors continue

find /* -name ssl.lib

...Nothing..

 

[jean-david]

I had to add in the qmail-1.0.3 folder a file named
ssl.lib wich contains the following line:

-lssl -lcrypto

 

[Effektor]

Still getting errors like above.

./compile idedit.c
idedit.c: In Funktion »main«:
idedit.c:126: Warnung: Rückgabetyp von »main« ist nicht »int«
./load idedit strerr.a substdio.a error.a str.a fs.a \
wait.a open.a seek.a
./compile install-big.c
./compile install.c
install.c: In Funktion »main«:
install.c:277: Warnung: Rückgabetyp von »main« ist nicht »int«
./load install-big fifo.o install.o auto_qmail.o \
auto_split.o auto_uids.o strerr.a substdio.a open.a error.a \
str.a fs.a
./compile hier.c
./load install fifo.o hier.o auto_qmail.o auto_split.o \
auto_uids.o strerr.a substdio.a open.a error.a str.a fs.a
./compile instcheck.c
instcheck.c: In Funktion »main«:
instcheck.c:105: Warnung: Rückgabetyp von »main« ist nicht »int«
./load instcheck fifo.o hier.o auto_qmail.o auto_split.o \
auto_uids.o strerr.a substdio.a error.a str.a fs.a
cat home.sh \
| sed s}QMAIL}"`head -1 conf-qmail`"}g \
> home
chmod 755 home
cat home+df.sh \
| sed s}QMAIL}"`head -1 conf-qmail`"}g \
> home+df
chmod 755 home+df
cat proc.sh \
| sed s}QMAIL}"`head -1 conf-qmail`"}g \
> proc
chmod 755 proc
cat proc+df.sh \
| sed s}QMAIL}"`head -1 conf-qmail`"}g \
> proc+df
chmod 755 proc+df
cat binm1.sh \
| sed s}QMAIL}"`head -1 conf-qmail`"}g \
> binm1
chmod 755 binm1
cat binm1+df.sh \
| sed s}QMAIL}"`head -1 conf-qmail`"}g \
> binm1+df
chmod 755 binm1+df
cat binm2.sh \
| sed s}QMAIL}"`head -1 conf-qmail`"}g \
> binm2
chmod 755 binm2
cat binm2+df.sh \
| sed s}QMAIL}"`head -1 conf-qmail`"}g \
> binm2+df
chmod 755 binm2+df
cat binm3.sh \
| sed s}QMAIL}"`head -1 conf-qmail`"}g \
> binm3
chmod 755 binm3
cat binm3+df.sh \
| sed s}QMAIL}"`head -1 conf-qmail`"}g \
> binm3+df
chmod 755 binm3+df
./compile spfquery.c
spfquery.c: In Funktion »main«:
spfquery.c:24: Warnung: Rückgabetyp von »main« ist nicht »int«
./load spfquery spf.o ip.o ipme.o ipalloc.o strsalloc.o \
now.o dns.o datetime.a stralloc.a alloc.a str.a substdio.a \
case.a error.a fs.a `cat dns.lib` `cat socket.lib`

 

[dw604]

I've got it now!

Finally got it thanks to all of these helpful replies! This is on a PSA7.5.4 FC4 system

- Install openssl-devel

yum install openssl-devel

- Download qmail 1.03 and plesk patches for 8.0 or 7.5.4 (see first post)

- tar xzf from the same folder creating 2 subdirs

- Download additional patch, such as http://qmail.org/outgoingip.patch and put it in the patches folder

- chdir to qmail-1.03

- Do the Plesk patches:

for d in ../qmail-patches/patch*; do patch <"$d"; done

- Do the outgoingip.patch (lazy way)

for d in ../qmail-patches/outgoingip.patch; do patch <"$d"; done

- Edit conf-spawn (I had to make mine 509 or less so I made it 500)

vi conf-spawn

- Create the required SSL file as recommended in post above

echo "-lssl -lcrypto" > ssl.lib

- Compile qmail

make setup check (yes, it will give lots of scary warnings while compiling)

- Config/setup qmail

./config

- At this point I like to modify /var/qmail/control/me to remove the subdomain.

- Echo desired IP to /var/qmail/control/outgoingip

- Reboot or do the following:

kill -HUP `ps auxw | grep xinetd | grep -v grep | awk {'print $2'}`

service qmail restart

That should do it!

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[Yitz]

I followed the directions and now my server doesn't accept email altogother it seems that the qmail-smtpd isn't starting. If someone can be of assistance it would be very much appreciated.


Thank You in advance
Yitz

 

[dw604]

Try removing Dr.Web and SpamAssassin

for r in `rpm -qa | grep drweb`; do rpm -e $r; done;
for r in `rpm -qa | grep spamas`; do rpm -e $r; done;

Run both twice if there are dependency problems.

 

[Yitz]

It didn't help. The qmail-smtpd server isn't started but when invoked via the command line it does responed.

 

[dw604]

Try recompiling without any additional patches, just the ones expected by Plesk. You did download and apply those, right?

Regards

 

[dw604]

I've seen some servers with improper file permissions on important /var/qmail/bin files such as qmail-queue. Google should get you the right ones to use.

 

[madcat]

This is a great idea and I'd like to apply it to our servers to stop outgoing spam ... Is there any way to do this using rpmbuild ? Can I even get a copy of the psa-qmail source RPM? I've had troubles in the past caused by installing software that was not RPM built and later yum updating (even if qmail is on the exclude= line).