I intended to begin my blog with a happy announcement about something cool I discovered on the net or so. Call it a close miss, because, while playing with gentoo’s webapp-config yesterday, I needed to set the ‘vhosts’ USE variable to stop it from automatically installing all web applications to the default host. So I added ‘vhosts’ to my global USE flags…
…which somehow triggered a recompile of qmail. Nothing to worry about. At least not until today, when I noticed no less than six spam mails had creeped into my inbox. Checking the mail header, I noticed they had not been scanned by spamassassin at all. Still, nothing out of the ordinary, that had happened twice before. Reinstall simscan and be done with it.
Turns out I wasn’t. I never got qmail to work again. Everything is a blur from there, but out of frustration, I ended up reinstalling qmail from scratch. Of course it got even worse. Now qmail temporarily rejects any and all incoming emails - permanently. Checked all logs to no avail.
I’m so totally fed up with the absurd amount of work qmail requires to understand the system and to track down errors. I was very fond of qmail once, but I guess it’s time for a change. I’m going to try courier. It has smtp time rejection built in and courier-imap never let me down.
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