On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 03:07:46AM -0600, James Blackwell wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> We're running qmail with vchkpw and qmail-popup on a debian box and are in
> despirate need of assistance.
>
> Here are the steps leading up to my problems:
> - We did a backup of the main directories
> - There was a botched attempt at installing smtp-poplock
> - It didn't work out too well, so we untar the backups to their correct
> locations
>
> SMTP now appears to be accepting messages, I can see them in the
> /var/spool/qmail/mess directory.
>
> No messages seem to be delivered until we reboot the box. Upon reboot all
> mail is delivered, but then it starts not delivering again.
This question comes up about every twenty minutes. The answer is to fix the
permissions on your trigger file. They should look like this:
prw--w--w- 1 qmails qmail 0 Dec 12 10:22 /var/qmail/queue/lock/trigger
> AND when I telnet in on port 110 it goes something like this:
> Connected to host.domain.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> user username_domain.net
> +OK
> pass mypassword
> -ERR authorization failed
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> The password is correct as I when I do a vpasswd to change it, it asks for
> the old password, then the new password. It then aborts and says old and
> new passwords match. If I put in a different new password, it changes it.
This is a whole different problem, to which I don't have the answer.
Chris
