Bingo! Thanks, Peter and Chris.
BTW, this was my first post to the qmail list -- I've been a little bit
anxious about getting help with qmail because this list isn't on dejanews --
my main resource -- but the qmail community definitely seems to live up to
its reputation.
Thanks again. See you later.
-Eric.
Peter van Dijk: [Wednesday 19-May]:
> On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:58:57PM -0500, Eric Berg wrote:
> > Hi, folks,
> >
> > I've got qmail installed on one of my Linux boxes which is intermittently
> > connected via ppp. I've just got things set up, and there are a few more
> > things to work out (such as the ficticious domain name for my
> > 192.168. subnet with DNS/bind/8)
> >
> > But the main problem that I have is that I keep getting messages like this:
> >
> > May 18 20:58:50 moby qmail: 927075530.735790 starting delivery 45: msg 2067 to
>local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > May 18 20:58:50 moby qmail: 927075530.737594 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
> > May 18 20:58:50 moby qmail: 927075530.812095 delivery 45: deferral:
>Home_directory_is_sticky:_user_is_editing_his_.qmail_file._(#4.2.1)/
> > May 18 20:58:50 moby qmail: 927075530.813810 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
> >
> > So, I know about chmod +/-t ., but root home dir is -t and there is no .qmail
> > file.
>
> qmail _never_ does _anything_ with root or root's homedir. root is handled
> by the alias user. Check /var/qmail/alias. It's probably sticky.
>
> Greetz, Peter
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