On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 06:29:52PM -0500, Peter Schuller wrote:
> we recendly had a hard drive crash on a system using qmail. /home and /var
> were gone - we restored them from backup. No problem. We then installed a
> new hard drive and moved /var and /home over to it. After this, we are
> seeing some really strange things going on.
>
> *All* local deliveries result in "temporary_error_on_maildir_delivery" in
> the logs. No mail is delivered, and they remain in the queue. All mail dirs
> are fine in terms of permissions and contents. We have not touched them.
>
> The *strange* part is: All queued mail is delivered successfully if we
> restart qmail! In other words, we can make all mail be delievered within 10
> minutes by restarting qmail automatically every 10 minutes.
>
> This is oviously stupid, which is why I am posting this message. Can anyone
> think of anything that might cause this strange behavior? Short of totally
> re-installing qmail and hoping for the best, what can we do?
This isn't entirely consistent with what you're describing, but the fact that
you backed up and restored /var suggests that you may have screwed up the
permissions on your trigger. See http://web.infoave.net/~dsill/lwq.html#trigger
Chris
