qmail

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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