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> From: Chris Green[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, February 05, 1999 2:39 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: More Maildir configuration questions
>
> I have qmail running on my Linux RedHat 5.2 box now and it
> successfully delivers mail to 'ordinary' users. After a little hassle
> I have got mutt successfully reading from ~/Maildir. However I have a
> problem and a question:-
>
> The 'problem' is that mail to root, postmaster, etc. is still not
> working. I have set up a Maildir directory in /var/qmail/alias which
> seems to be the place it should arrive (I'm not sure about this) but
> the mail doesn't arrive. In /var/log/maillog I'm getting lots of
> errors like:-
>
>
> Feb 5 19:03:33 server2 qmail: 918241413.728213 delivery 39: deferral:
> Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/
>
Who owns the directory ? Probably root or alias ? The easiest solution
would be to create
a non-root user (like an admin account) and set .qmail-root,
.qmail-postmaster, etc to
forward the mail to the admin account.
> So presumably I either haven't got the Maildir for root's mail in the
> right place or the permissions are wrong. Can anyone set me right
> please. (By the way I also have a /root/Maildir but nothing has
> arrived there either)
>
qmail will NOT deliver mail to root. That would be a security hole
(since qmail
would need to setuid to root).
> Secondly, the 'question'. Can I change the name and location of a
> user's Maildir or does it *have* to be ~/Maildir? If it can be
> changed which configuration files need changing?
>
Just set it in the ~/.qmail file.
You could just as easily set it to /var/log/mail/USER/maildir however
you will still
need to enforce the protections.
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