I recently purchased and received my new latop, a Dell Inspiron 9300. While past experience with Dell has been nothing but spectacular I am sad to say this purchase was anything but. I placed my order at the end of November and was excited to learn that my laptop was built and shipped within a week. I checked its tracking information daily and rushed home from work on the day it was delivered.

I opened the box and started the initial setup of the laptop and OS. Only minutes into the setup the screen of my laptop became distorted, blurry and discolored. I promptly called Dell Tech Support and after 2 hours of resets and diagnostics I was told I would need to ship my laptop to Dell's Repair Center. Dell shipped me the packaging material and I quickly sent off my laptop to the repair center. Dell returned the laptop to me in about 8 days.

I once agained rushed home from work and booted my laptop only to discover that the problem had not been fixed even thought they replaced the LCD. Once again I called Dell Tech Support, after another 90 minutes on the phone I asked to have my laptop exchanged for a brand new laptop which Dell Support agreed to without much aggravation. I then was instructed to contact Customer Service the following day. I did as I was instructed and contact Customer Support. I spoke with a Rep who stated that he was having trouble entering my exchange information into their system do to a systems problem. He said he would give me a return call within 2 hours to confirm the exchange and RMA information.

Five hours later I called the Dell Customer Support only to find that they had know information regarding my exchange request. I was transferred to several people and was finally put on the phone with Trixie. After several minutes of explaining and 30 minutes of hold time I was finally assured that my exchange was entered and would be processed. Trixie was great and called and emailed me several times to update me on the progress of my exchange.

After another 8 days of waiting I received my new laptop on December 24th, 2005. Finally Dell seemed to have done everything right and I was happy to have my new laptop. It has been over a week now and everything appears to still be working properly and I am keeping my fingers crossed I do not have nay further troubles in the future.

After all of this trouble I am still a Dell supporter however if it had not been for Trixie at Dell Customer Support that may have not been the case. Thank you Trixie!

First you will need to make a copy of your qmail-smtpd directory located in /var/qmail/supervise. I called my new copy qmail-smtpd2. Once the copy had been completed I then needed to edit the run file located in the qmail-smtpd2 directory. This was a simple change to add the port number I wished to have qmail-smtpd run on. Here is an example:

/usr/local/bin/tcpserver -H -v -R -l "$LOCAL" -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -c "$MAXSMTPD" -u "$QMAILDUID" -g "$NOFILESGID" 0 2525 \

Notice the 2525 which is the second port I will be running. Please be aware that this line may be different depending on your installation of QMail. My installation was based on the Life with Qmail instructions and also the addition of SpamAssassin, SpamHaus RBL, relay-ctrl-chk and ClamAV.

With this change complete I needed to update the run file located in the qmail-smtpd2/log directory. I just changed the logging path to log to a second log named qmail-smtpd2.

I then needed to create a symlink to the new /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd2 in the /service directory, for example:

ln -s /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd2 /service/qmail-smtpd2

Finally the last changes required updating my qmailctl script to include the new qmail-smtpd2 setup. This was a matter of making a duplicate of the existing qmail-smtpd commands and modifying them with the new name of qmail-smtpd2. For example:

if svok /service/qmail-smtpd2 ; then

svc -u /service/qmail-smtpd2

else

echo qmail-smtpd2 service not running

fi

Please note the above is only one of the changes you will need to make in the qmailctl script.

Then I restarted qmail using the qmailctl stop and start commands. Qmail was now listening on both port 25 and 2525.

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