G'day.
Having seen that Sendmail's config file looks (as someone aptly put it)
`like an explosion in a punctuation factory'
I decided to use qmail - just for a dial -up connection single machine
several users - nothing fancy.
When I first did this (with help from this list) - and possibly more
by luck than judgement, the set-up worked ok.
Incoming handled without tcpserver and outgoing sent as a batch on pppd
connection.
After the nearly disasterous (thank god for CD backups) incident with
my hard drive, I Installed Mandrake 7 and re-built qmail on this
platform, this time closely following LWQ. I again adopted the method
of hi-jacking sendmail and arranging distribution to local mailboxes
(kmail does not `do' MailDir). This time, I have supervise ticking away
as one is supposed to.
Very good. Except that having got all that set up I then found a load of
'can't chdir to maildir' messages in the log. After some experimentation
I tried setting the offending home directories rwxrwxr-x and things
started working
:-/
So [Q.1] does this suggest any obvious setup fault
to anyone? Apparently, this is a glaring security hole (not that it
matters in this particular case - being an occasional dial-up) but it
indicates that SOMETHING is wrong!
The other thing was that while experimental local messages got delivered
OK by `sendmail' (hi-jacked via qmail's wrapper) those directed to
non-local (not in `assign' cdb) places get the `Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir'
thing. I have yet to find a combination of file/directory permissions
(legal or illegal) that will force this to work.
Something peculiar is going on (could it be do do with groups maybe?)
For the moment, I send outgoing mail direct to SMTP from kmail, but this
is not a good long-term solution, since one has can only send one user's
mail at a time..
[Q.2] It seems likely that Q.1 and this are related - can anyone
hazard a guess as to how?
Thanks [in anticipation]
RJP
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