Hi,
I'm trying to install qmail on a PC with a Suse Linux distribution (I
installed sendmail but I never configured it), and there are problems
with aliases (postmaster).
I downloaded the tar.gz packages from
www.flounder.net/qmail/qmail-howto.html
(qmail, qmail patch, daemontools, dot-forward, fast-forward, rblsmtpd,
ucspi-tcp), unpacked them and applied the patch to qmail; then
I followed steps 1-10 in the INSTALL file (and the related steps in
INSTALL.ids, INSTALL.ctl and INSTALL.alias):
- mkdir /var/qmail
- groupadd nofiles
- useradd -g nofiles -d /var/qmail/alias alias
- useradd -g nofiles -d /var/qmail qmaild
- useradd -g nofiles -d /var/qmail qmaill
- useradd -g nofiles
- groupadd qmail
- useradd -g qmail -d /var/qmail qmailq
- useradd -g qmail -d /var/qmail qmailr
- useradd -g qmail -d /var/qmail qmails
- cd /usr/local/src/qmail-1.03
- make setup check
- ./config-fast my.full.host.name
- cd ~alias
- touch .qmail-postmaster
- touch .qmail-mailer-daemon
- touch .qmail-root
- chmod 644 ~alias/.qmail*
- cp /var/qmail/boot/home /var/qmail/rc
- csh -cf '/var/qmail/rc &'
finally I made the tests in the TEST.deliver file:
the tests 1-5 succeeded, but local-postmaster failed; I also failed when
I tried to send a mail to root.
The log file (/var/mail/log) reported:
"Unable_to_open_./Mailbox:_access_denied._(#4.2.1)/"
Can someone tell me why?
I've also compiled the other packages before starting the configuration
of qmail. Could this cause any problems to qmail in general?
Thanks in advance
Franco
