Ryan,
Read INSTALL.alias, inparticular the section that starts
* root. Under qmail, root never receives mail.
HTH
Peter
Peter Farmer
Systems Engineer
blueyonder
ICQ - 55297879
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 9:47 AM
Subject: Qmail won't deliver locally.
> I've been fsking with qmail for a week now trying to get it to deliver
> locally. I've read every piece of documentation available, yet, when I
> use qmail-inject or qmail-local. Nothing shows up in the user's
> mailboxes (i.e. /root/Mailbox). When I send email by telneting to port
> 25 on the mail server, mail just bounces:
>
> Hi. This is the qmail-send program at deathstar.ryanmarsh.com.
> I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following
> addresses.
> This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)
>
> --- Below this line is a copy of the message.
>
> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Received: (qmail 9454 invoked from
> network); 2 Feb 2001 01:44:34 -0000
> Received: from cpe-24-221-171-149.ca.sprintbbd.net (HELO )
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by cpe-24-221-171-149.ca.sprintbbd.net with SMTP;
> 2 Feb 2001 01:44:34
> -0000
> test
>
>
> My /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery says:
> ./Mailbox splogger qmail
>
> None of the users have .qmail files in their directories so
> theoretically it should just create a ~/Mailbox. I tried creating
> .qmail's for each user. That didn't work either.
>
> Right now these are running
> 9428 ? 00:00:00 qmail-send
> 9431 ? 00:00:00 qmail-lspawn
> 9432 ? 00:00:00 qmail-rspawn
> 9433 ? 00:00:00 qmail-clean
>
> Attached is the output of qmail-showctl.
>
> Butterflysoft.org has already been moved over to this server.
> Ryanmarsh.com is really pointing to a different server but in this
> instance im running my own DNS which resolves to my server (where I will
> eventually move my domain if I can get qmail to work). I tried emailing
> users at both domains and root at both domains.
>
> --
> Regards,
> -ryan
>
> The three great virtues of programming are laziness, impatience,
> and hubris, but bigotry makes the open-source world go round.
>
