"jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, I'm new to qmail and one year old in linux.
Welcome, newbie!
>When I send the message it looks like it works, it doesn't error out or
>anything. But when I telnet into my linux box, I can't find the email
>anywhere.
The receiving user's home directory is apparently world-writable. See
below.
>I had a heck of a time shuffling thru the directions/installation documents.
>It didn't seem very clear, but it was probably me.
Have you seen "Life with qmail"[1] (also known as LWQ)?
>I'm using the ./Maildir method.
>
>My .qmail file is:
>
>./Maildir/
>
>My rc is:
>
>#!/bin/sh
>
># Using splogger to send the log through syslog.
># Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mailbox by default.
>
>exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
>qmail-start ./Maildir/ splogger qmail
That all looks OK. The .qmail file is unnecessary since it contains
the default delivery instructions, that's not a problem.
>there is nothing in my /var/qmail/users directory. From what I could make
>out, there should be an assign file in there but I'm not clear on the
>format.
users/assign is completely optional, and if you don't know whether you
need it or not, you probably don't.
>I tried to use the command qmail-pw2u but it just hangs up and does
>nothing, I have to hit the Control-C to stop it. Am I using it
>wrong?
Yes, see the man page or LWQ[2] for more information on usage.
>Another thing, my main user account
>has 2 uppercase letters, so I tried using the -u option, but nothing again.
qmail doesn't deliver to accounts with uppercase letters.[3]
>I didn't instal the anti-spamming package or the daemontools since it's a
>very small LAN. I'm using inetd instead of ucspi-tcp.
There's no system too small for daemontools and ucspi-tcp. I recommend
them everywhere.
>I wasn't sure if I need the POP3 thing, but I installed it anyways since I
>notice the properties on my windows mail server account has POP indicated.
>I put in my inetd too, just like the documentation said.
Which POP3 thing did you install? It doesn't look like qmail-pop3d,
based on the log entries below, so it probably won't work with
maildirs.
>Sep 19 22:35:43 alita qmail: 969417343.987402 delivery 28: deferral:
>Uh-oh:_home_directory_is_writable._(#4.7.0)/
That's why messages aren't being delivered.
Thanks for including lots of details, especially the log file
snippet.
-Dave
Footnotes:
[1] http://lwq.w3.to
[2] http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#qmail-users
[3] http://Web.InfoAve.Net/~dsill/lwq.html#uppercase-usernames
