Guide updated on 29th of February 2016

Adaptation of your Debian packages source list


You will need to adapt your Debian packages source list (/etc/apt/sources.list) to match the following :

deb http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net/debian jessie main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free

# jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free

I use debian.mirrors.ovh.net because it's my ISP mirror but I advice you to choose your nearest ones

aptitude update
aptitude safe-upgrade

Proceed to the debian package install


Users comments
Bob - 24/08/2017 07:13

May I suggest one additional step, before starting the entire installation.

And that is, to check the SPAM databases for the IP address you are about to use?

I spent a day yesterday installing the mail server and converting all data from the old one. Only to find out that emails were landing in spam folders.

I _should_ have checked that, but forgot.

Joe - 08/11/2016 22:01

 Failed to fetch http://debian.mirrors.ovh.net/debian/dists/jessie/Release.gpg: Cannot initiate the connection to debian.mirrors.ovh.net:80 (2001:41d0:1:7c8b::1). - connect (101: Network is unreachable) [IP: 2001:41d0:1:7c8b::1 80]

W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Marc - 03/07/2014 10:35

Install correct on Wheezy but with the old CNAME lookup error that prevents qmail sending emails... so not really usable !

Can anyone add the DNS patches in this package or tell me how to get the sources and rebuild the package with the patches inside ?

Patches can be found here :

http://www.memoryhole.net/qmail/any-to-cname.patch

http://www.memoryhole.net/qmail/qmail-103.patch

PS : your captcha code is unreadable !!!

Michiel - 18/06/2014 15:11

This should work on Debian Wheezy and also Ubuntu 12.04 LTS...the documentation is pretty up to date, if something is not working:

 

- check your steps

- check the comments


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