this is correct if you dont have the .qmail file in the popboxes directory it 
will return the error described. the path on my server lives @ 
/var/qmail/popboxes/domain-com/user/.qmail and if you use the Maildir format 
then it would contain ./Maildir/ within that file. also the user must have an 
entry in /var/qmail/users/domains/virtualhost as well as in 
/var/qmail/users/assign and have a password entered in 
/var/qmail/users/poppasswd. i use non-system accounts so the config may be 
different for system accounts and is different if you use the mbox 
directories. hope this helps.

slr

On Tuesday 27 August 2002 11:20 pm, David Mandala wrote:
> Some excellent reading:
>
> http://qmail.3va.net/qdp/docs.htmlhttp://qmail.3va.net/qmailfaq.html#otherh
>ost
> http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#virtual-domainshttp://www.lifewithqma
>il.org/lwq.html#extension-addresses
> http://www.lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#aliases
>
> Finally don't forget if a user on the system is going to handle all of
> the mail for a virtual domain make sure that user has AT LEAST make a
> ~user/.qmail-default or the mail for the virtual domain will bounce. The
> .qmail-default has to have the delevery method the user likes to deliver
> their email. I used ./Maildir/ in my .qmail-default file.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Davidm
>
> On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 14:08, Howard Shaw wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me this:
> > I'm trying to set up qmail to be able to handle virtual hosts.  But the
> > only addresses I can send mail to are if there is a user by that name on
> > the system.  I get the following message:
> >
> > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at lipton.excelco.com.
> > I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
> > addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't
> > work out.
> >
> > <user@virtualdomain.com>:
> > Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
> >
> > --- Below this line is a copy of the message.
> >
> > I don't get it.  I've got  <mailto:user@virtualdomain.com>
> > user@virtualdomain.com in my virtualhosts file, and virtualdomain.com in
> > my locals, and rcpthost files.  Any ideas?
> >
> >
> > Howard J. Shaw
> > howard@excelco.com
> > 480-217-4214