I had this problem and searching the lists on www-archive.ornl.gov was no
help.
There seems to be a huge amount of messages with this problem so I wonder
how many people out there might have had the same problem I had but with no
solution offered.
So it appears the problem was with my home directory permissions. I haven't
investigated it extensively but they were something like 750 (or something
like that). Anyway at present I just changed them to 777 mainly because it
was midnight and it was only a home PC that's not really connected often
(once I get the good oil from you guys on what they should be, I'll change
them).
So what should the permissions be for effective operation. (i.e.. I think I
screwed up all the permissions on my system one night (really late) by
doing a recursive chmod (almost as painful as rm *.*)) and oops, I was in
/ and logged in as root. (but at least NOTHING is [S|G]uid on my system at
the moment because everything got reset.).
Incidently the way I discovered this was to try using .../users/assign and
qmail-newu. This still failed for the user I was trying to send to but gave
a more informative message i.e. instead of saying "...no mailbox..." it
said something like "...can't access /home/frodo...permission denied..."
Anyway a definitive answer (or reference link) on the permissions for all
qmail related stuff would be good.
While I'm at it. What's the best source of newbie info for setting up qmail
at home on a dial up link. i.e.. I'd like to register my own domain name
and have the mail stored on the ISP server and then traded when I connect
my server (there is a use for 486 PCs after all).
Also, I see a lot of soap box speeches but are there any good references
that explain why sendmail etc. suck and qmail is supposedly so good ? A
comparative study would be good.
Thanks
Wilson Fletcher
