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     1 You can do several tests of qmail delivery without setting up qmail to
       
     2 accept messages through SMTP or through /usr/lib/sendmail:
       
     3 
       
     4 1. After you start qmail, look for a
       
     5            qmail: status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
       
     6    line in syslog. qmail-send always prints either ``cannot start'' or
       
     7    ``status''. (The big number is a splogger timestamp.)
       
     8 
       
     9 2. Do a ps and look for the qmail daemons. There should be four of
       
    10    them, all idle: qmail-send, running as qmails; qmail-lspawn, running
       
    11    as root; qmail-rspawn, running as qmailr; and qmail-clean, running
       
    12    as qmailq. You will also see splogger, running as qmaill.
       
    13 
       
    14 3. Local-local test: Send yourself an empty message. (Replace ``me''
       
    15    with your username. Make sure to include the ``to:'' colon.)
       
    16       % echo to: me | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
       
    17    The message will show up immediately in your mailbox, and syslog
       
    18    will show something like this:
       
    19            qmail: new msg 53 
       
    20            qmail: info msg 53: bytes 246 from <me@domain> qp 20345 uid 666
       
    21            qmail: starting delivery 1: msg 53 to local me@domain 
       
    22            qmail: status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
       
    23            qmail: delivery 1: success: did_1+0+0/
       
    24            qmail: status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
       
    25            qmail: end msg 53 
       
    26    (53 is an inode number; 20345 is a process ID; your numbers will
       
    27    probably be different.)
       
    28 
       
    29 4. Local-error test: Send a message to a nonexistent local address.
       
    30       % echo to: nonexistent | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
       
    31            qmail: new msg 53 
       
    32            qmail: info msg 53: bytes 246 from <me@domain> qp 20351 uid 666
       
    33            qmail: starting delivery 2: msg 53 to local nonexistent@domain
       
    34            qmail: status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
       
    35            qmail: delivery 2: failure: No_such_address.__#5.1.1_/
       
    36            qmail: status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
       
    37            qmail: bounce msg 53 qp 20357
       
    38            qmail: end msg 53 
       
    39            qmail: new msg 54 
       
    40            qmail: info msg 54: bytes 743 from <> qp 20357 uid 666
       
    41            qmail: starting delivery 3: msg 54 to local me@domain
       
    42            qmail: status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
       
    43            qmail: delivery 3: success: did_1+0+0/
       
    44            qmail: status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
       
    45            qmail: end msg 54 
       
    46    You will now have a bounce message in your mailbox.
       
    47 
       
    48 5. Local-remote test: Send an empty message to your account on another
       
    49    machine.
       
    50       % echo to: me@wherever | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
       
    51            qmail: new msg 53 
       
    52            qmail: info msg 53: bytes 246 from <me@domain> qp 20372 uid 666
       
    53            qmail: starting delivery 4: msg 53 to remote me@wherever
       
    54            qmail: status: local 0/10 remote 1/20
       
    55            qmail: delivery 4: success: 1.2.3.4_accepted_message./...
       
    56            qmail: status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
       
    57            qmail: end msg 53 
       
    58    There will be a pause between ``starting delivery'' and ``success'';
       
    59    SMTP is slow. Check that the message is in your mailbox on the other
       
    60    machine.
       
    61 
       
    62 6. Local-postmaster test: Send mail to postmaster, any capitalization.
       
    63       % echo to: POSTmaster | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject
       
    64    Look for the message in the alias mailbox, normally ~alias/Mailbox.
       
    65 
       
    66 7. Double-bounce test: Send a message with a completely bad envelope.
       
    67       % /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject -f nonexistent
       
    68       To: unknownuser
       
    69       Subject: testing
       
    70 
       
    71       This is a test. This is only a test.
       
    72       %
       
    73    (Use end-of-file, not dot, to end the message.) Look for the double
       
    74    bounce in the alias mailbox.
       
    75 
       
    76 8. Group membership test:
       
    77       % cat > ~me/.qmail-groups
       
    78       |groups >> MYGROUPS; exit 0
       
    79       % /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject me-groups < /dev/null
       
    80       % cat ~me/MYGROUPS
       
    81    MYGROUPS will show your normal gid and nothing else. (Under Solaris,
       
    82    make sure to use /usr/ucb/groups; /usr/bin/groups is broken.)