Alex Le Fevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 24 January 2001 at 08:03:09 -0800
> I've got a working qmail system up and running now --
> but only one user on it gets mail. All the other users
> I'm trying are getting the error "Unable to chdir to
> maildir (4.2.1)" in the maillog when trying to deliver
> mail to them.
>
> All of these undeliverable users have Maildirs in
> their home directories, with cur, new and tmp
> subdirectories, all of which are set to 0700 for
> permissions. Each also has a .qmail file containing
> ./Maildir/, set to -rw-r--r-- for permissions.
>
> Any idea why this would not be working? I followed
> exactly the instructions people on this list gave me
> before.
What's the ownership of the Maildirs? If you created them all as
root, for example, and didn't chown them, then they'd all be owned by
root. qmail-local runs as the user, and wouldn't be able to access
the Maildir with permission 0700 unless it was owned by the user.
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