qmail

[slr]

thanks a lot david for your response, i did finally resolve my delivery
problem by one making sure there was only one qmail-send process running
and two applying your suggestion. how does qmail handle imap?anyway thx
again. 


slr

On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 17:25, David Mandala wrote:
> Qmail is touchie about permissions on the Maildir directory and the
> .qmail file. The maildir including it's subdirectories should be set to
> 700. The .qmail file should be set to 400.
> 
> Qmail is very nice but picky.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Davidm
> 
> On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 16:25, sweetgrass wrote:
> > update:
> > 
> > this is what /var/log/qmail/qmail-send/current has to say
> > 
> > @400000003c59ce1e25f32044 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
> > @400000003c59d01d2788db74 starting delivery 1: msg 277915 to local 
> > domain-com-user@domain.com 
> > @400000003c59d01d2789160c status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
> > @400000003c59d01d2adf8084 delivery 1: deferral:
> > Uh-oh:_.qmail_has_file_delivery_but_has_x_bit_set._(#4.7.0)/
> > @400000003c59d01d2adfbb1c status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
> > 
> > slr
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 09:17, slr wrote:
> > > update: 
> > > 
> > > i have resolved the relaying issue, but the pop3 problem is still an open issue.
> > >   ----- Original Message ----- 
> > >   From: slr 
> > >   To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us 
> > >   Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 8:06 AM
> > >   Subject: qmail
> > > 
> > > 
> > >   i have a question for the qmail people out there. this is my first time working with qmail, anyway there seemed to be a big push to use Maildir instead of mbox in the docs that i have read. so that is what i did, i conf. qmail to use Maildir and non-system accounts. which is partly working, i can send, so smtp is working find, and i can connect pop3 to the server using both evolution and OE6. but qmail doesnt seem to be delivering the mail to the Maildir for the test account. also relaying seems to be a problem, i followed these instructions but had no success:
> > > 
> > >   8a. Access Control
> > >   Before we can start up our qmail smtpd, we need to do some access control.
> > >   The simplest way to do this is by using files in /etc.  I use /etc/tcp.smtp as my
> > >   access control file.  If you don't need to do any access control, /etc/tcp.smtp can have just
> > >   one line:
> > >   :allow 
> > > 
> > >   Note that a default configuration does not allow for ANY relaying, even from localhost.
> > >   To allow relaying from localhost and your local network, you would have to use something
> > >   like this:
> > >   127.0.0.1:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
> > >   192.168.1.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
> > >   :allow
> > > 
> > >   After you've created your rules, you need to activate them.  tcpserver works by reading
> > >   a cdb (database) file.  You use the tcprules program to build the database file from your
> > >   /etc/tcp.smtp file.  This is accomplished by the following command:
> > > 
> > >   # tcprules /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb /etc/tcp.smtp.tmp < /etc/tcp.smtp
> > > 
> > >   it wasnt until i added the host i was sending, to the rcpthosts file in /var/qmail/control.
> > > 
> > >   thx in advance for any help.
> > > 
> > >   slr
> > 
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