I'm having a problem with my newly installed qmail, and I hope someone
can help me. I'm a bit of a newbie, so I'm not sure what info you'll
need - I'll just include it all, and hope you find what you need below :)
First some background. My username is david, and my host is
a3a88198.bconnected.net.
My e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] My ~/.qmail contains the string
./Maildir/,
and qmail is run with the following rc file:
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start ./Mailbox/ splogger qmail
I can send mail local-to-local and local-to-remote, but cannot receive mail
sent locally or remotely. Specifically, the doc/TEST.deliver tests work fine,
but doc/TEST.receive test #1 fails as shown below.
[david@a3a88198 david]$ telnet 127.0.0.1 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 a3a88198.bconnected.net ESMTP
helo dude
250 a3a88198.bconnected.net
mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
250 ok
rcpt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
250 ok
data
354 go ahead
Subject: blah
blah
.
250 ok 941519761 qp 4767
produces the following:
Nov 1 21:16:01 a3a88198 qmail: 941519761.504736 new msg 223317
Nov 1 21:16:01 a3a88198 qmail: 941519761.504898 info msg 223317: bytes 198
from <> qp 4767 uid 503
Nov 1 21:16:01 a3a88198 qmail: 941519761.683230 starting delivery 3: msg
223317 to local @a3a88198.bconnected.net
Nov 1 21:16:01 a3a88198 qmail: 941519761.683379 status: local 1/10 remote
0/20
Nov 1 21:16:01 a3a88198 qmail: 941519761.684374 delivery 3: success:
Nov 1 21:16:01 a3a88198 qmail: 941519761.684471 status: local 0/10 remote
0/20
Nov 1 21:16:01 a3a88198 qmail: 941519761.684541 end msg 223317
Note line 3 - to local @a3a88198.bconnected.net. That's weird - there's no user
in front of the @. So I tried adding an alias file, called .qmail-silenus,
containing the string "david" - I hoped that qmail would route incoming mail to
silenus to user david. Unfortunately, this didn't work.
Next I tried adding a users/assign file, written thusly:
=futility:david:500:500:/home/david:::
.
This also didn't work. Next, I tried the TEST.receive test #1, but replaced
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following strings:
silenus@localhost
david@localhost
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Each of these attempts produced the exact same log report.
I can't think of anything else I can do. As far as I know, the alias dotfile
should have worked - I don't know why it failed, and I don't know what to do
next.
Apologies for the long post. I hope someone can help me.
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