thank you for your response, and yes i did create the .qmail file in the
user's home directory with the line ./Maildir/. but i had 2 problems,
permissions on the .qmail file and 2 qmail-send processes. but all of my
problems have been resolved, thanks to Google. once again i want to
thank all who offered help.

slr
 

On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 19:03, Tom Jones wrote:
> Just to satisfy my curiosity.  Did you remember to create the ".qmail"
> file in the user's home directory with a line like ./Maildir/ ?
> 
> Unless that file exists and is owned by the user, qmail won't know how to
> deliver the mail.
> 
> TJ
> 
> On 31 Jan 2002, sweetgrass wrote:
> 
> > ok i am posting my question again for those of you who had problems with
> > my color scheme.
> >
> > 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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