oops, forgot to cc devinfo.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Woody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] qmail Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir problem
> I think you missed a step. You need to create a test list before sending a
> test message.
>
> first: in the listar.cfg set newlist-qmail = yes
> second: /home/listar/listar -newlist <testlist>
> third: cp /home/listar/lists/<testlist>/qmail-aliases/.* /var/qmail/alias/
> finally: send your test message.
>
> for more in-depth info checkout http://www.listar.org/docs/listar.htm
>
> Regards,
> -Keith
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 2:02 PM
> Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] qmail Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir problem
>
>
> > I'm trying to get the listar MLM (www.listar.org) installed on my
e-smith
> 4.1.2
> > box. I'm having problems with how qmail is forwarding messages to the
> listar
> > application. Please help. Here's what I've done so far:
> >
> > 1) Download the latest rpm snapshot from www.listar.org. in my case, it
> was
> >
>
ftp://ftp.listar.org/pub/listar/snapshots/rpm/listar-1.0.0-snap20010225.i386
> .rpm
> >
> > 2) Create a listar user on the e-smith server. This should not be a
> regular
> > user created through the e-smith manager interface.
> > adduser listar
> > which creates an entries in:
> > /etc/passwd listar:x:5010:5010::/home/listar:/bin/bash
> > /etc/group listar:x:5010:
> >
> > 3) Install the listar rpm, which by default, installs the binaries etc.
> > in /home/listar
> > rpm -ivh listar-1.0.0-snap20010225.i386.rpm
> >
> > which installs, among others, in /home/listar/
> >
> > -rwsr-xr-x 1 listar listar 195900 Feb 26 02:45 listar
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 listar listar 9061 Aug 13 16:37 listar.cfg
> >
> > I edited the listar.cfg file appropriately to point to the right
> directories,
> > users etc.
> >
> > 4) Create the initial listar aliases so that qmail will direct email to
> listar
> > properly
> > echo "|/home/listar/listar" > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-listar
> > echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] > /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-listar-owner
> >
> > 5) Test this setup by sending a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > And this is what I get in /var/log/qmail/:
> > 997734639.611620 new msg 1008334
> > 997734639.611628 info msg 1008334: bytes 523 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> qp
> > 29124 uid 400
> > 997734639.613154 starting delivery 177: msg 1008334 to local
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 997734639.613170 status: local 2/10 remote 0/20
> > 997734639.613952 delivery 176: success: forward:_qp_29124/did_0+0+1/
> > 997734639.613966 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
> > 997734639.613973 end msg 1008007
> > 997734639.620853 delivery 177: deferral:
> Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/
> > 997734639.620869 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
> >
> > So, thinking it was a permissions thing, I first added qmail and
nofiles,
> which
> > i believe is a qmail related group, to the listar group
> >
> > /etc/group listar:x:5010:qmail,nofiles
> >
> > Then I also gave the listar group rw priv's in /home/listar
> >
> > chmod -R g+rw /home/listar
> >
> > And I'm still getting the same error.
> >
> > What should I do to allow qmail to deliver the messages to the listar
> > application? Please help, I really need to get this to work. Otherwise
> I'm
> > going to have to give up on e-smith... which I really don't want to do.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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