On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Jennifer Franklin wrote:
> I have set up Postgres on our server and under /var/qmail/alias i placed a
> .qmail-postgres (the user account for postgreSQL is postgres), I then
> forward all mail to postgres to root
>
> .qmail-postgres contains
> &root
>
> all root mail is aliased to our two system administrators.
>
> When I checked the alias by sending mail to postgres and checked
> /var/mail/mail.log I see the following entry:
>
> Oct 23 13:19:09 tuwanda qmail: 972321549.021134 status: local 0/10 remote
> 0/20
> Oct 23 13:21:42 tuwanda qmail: 972321702.016694 starting delivery
> 1084: msg 231 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Oct 23
> 13:21:42 tuwanda qmail: 972321702.016776 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
> Oct 23 13:21:42 tuwanda qmail: 972321702.021020 delivery
> 1084: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/
>
> If I have aliased the postgres account why is it trying to change to the
> postgres maildir (there is none since I don't want mail being delivered to
> the postgres account.
>
> If anyone could help me on this I would really appreciate it.
> Please email me directly since I am not subscribed to the qmail mailing
> list the volume of mail received is just too high for me.
The user postgres is a real user. Move ~alias/.qmail-postgres to ~postgres
Vince.
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