[Koha] Email alert from Koha

[Nicole Engard]

Added to the Tutorials on the Wiki:
http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:documentation:tutorials:qmaillenny

Also - please feel free to contribute to the tutorials we started ages
ago on the wiki:
http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:documentation:tutorials

Thanks
Nicole

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Emrys Minnig
<emrysminnig at varndean.co.uk> wrote:
> I prefer qmail, which I've set up on several Koha servers.  I wrote these (hopefully) easy instructions for qmail installation on Debian Lenny, though it should be similar for other *nix systems.  It's adapted from the process described on qmailrocks.org:
>
> (From the command-line, logged in as the Koha admin.)
> 1) sudo apt-get install patchutils
> 2) sudo cpan Digest::SHA1 Digest::HMAC Net::DNS Time::HiRes HTML::Tagset HTML::Parser
> 3) (in the farthest down directory) sudo mkdir downloads
> 4) cd downloads
> 5) wget http://www.qmailrocks.org/downloads/qmailrocks.tar.gz <http://webmail.varndean.co.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.qmailrocks.org/downloads/qmailrocks.tar.gz>
> 6) tar -xvvf qmailrocks.tar.gz
> 7) sudo /downloads/qmailrocks/scripts/install/qmr_install_linux-s1.script
> 8) sudo /downloads/qmailrocks/scripts/util/qmail_big_patches.script
> 9) cd /usr/src/qmail/qmail-1.03
> 10) sudo make man && sudo make setup check
> 11) sudo ./config-fast [mail.mydomain.com]
> 12) sudo make cert
> 13) sudo chown -R vpopmail:qmail /var/qmail/control/clientcert.pem /var/qmail/control/servercert.pem
> 14) sudo pico /usr/src/qmail/ucspi-tcp-0.88/error.h
> 15) replace "extern int errno;" with "#include <errno.h>"
> 16) sudo make && sudo make setup check
> 17) sudo pico /package/admin/daemontools-0.76/src/error.h
> 18) replace "extern int errno;" with "#include <errno.h>"
> 19) cd /package/admin/daemontools-0.76
> 20) sudo package/install
> 21) sudo /downloads/qmailrocks/scripts/finalize/linux/finalize_linux.script
> 22) sudo pico /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-pop3d/run
> 23) replace "mail.example.com" with your server's hostname
> 24) sudo qmailctl stop
> 25) su (change to root/superuser)
> 26) echo '127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""' >> /etc/tcp.smtp
> 27)  qmailctl cdb
> 28) echo [your email here] > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root
> 29) echo [your email here] > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-postmaster
> 30) echo [your email here] > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-mailer-daemon
> 31) echo [your email here] > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-anonymous
> 32) rm /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-anonymous
> 33) ln -s /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-root /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-anonymous
> 34) chmod 644 /var/qmail/alias/.qmail*
> 35)  exit
> 36) sudo /etc/init.d/exim4 stop
> 37) cd /etc/rc2.d
> 38) sudo mv S20exim4 K20exim4
> 39) sudo rm -f /usr/lib/sendmail
> 40) sudo rm -f /usr/sbin/sendmail
> 41) sudo ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail
> 42) sudo ln -s /var/qmail/bin/sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail
> 43) sudo dpkg --purge --force-depends postfix
> 44) sudo /downloads/qmailrocks/scripts/util/qmr_inst_check
> 44) sudo qmailctl stop
> 45) sudo qmailctl start
> 46) sudo qmailctl stat  (shows stats)
> 47) test (echo To: joe at example.com <mailto:joe at example.com>  | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-inject)
> NOTE: qmail can be reconfigured through /usr/src/qmail/qmail-1.03/config-fast [hostname]
>
> -Emrys
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: koha-bounces at lists.katipo.co.nz on behalf of Vimal Kumar
> Sent: Tue 26/01/2010 08:03
> To: Koha-List
> Subject: [Koha] Email alert from Koha
>
>
> Dear Friends,
>
> This is a  request to Koha users with experience in configuring mail system (Sendmail or Postfix) for Koha.
> Many Koha users wish the availability of a documentation for preparing Koha to send automatic overdue notice and advance notices.
> Documentation to be include installation of sendmail or postfix, configuration, settings in Koha for mail alerts, and settings for cronjob.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> --
> Vimal Kumar V.
> Asst. Librarian
> Asian School of Business
> Technopark, Trivandrum-695 581
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