Yes, I'm embarassed to admit that was indeed the fault. I had just tried
creating new users, and realised they couldn't access their own homedirs
and it clicked.
So now all seems to be working very happily again.
For the record qmail was less than helpful in it's logging errors merely
saying.
Jun 28 11:47:36 willow QMAIL: 993746856.402721 delivery 19: failure:
Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)
each time. Oh well.
Thanks again.
herbie
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On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Andrew J Herbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > OpenLDAP, the pam_ldap and nss_ldap modules from padl.com, the UW IMAP
> > server, regular qmail (not qmail-ldap).
> >
> > I have no qmail users or cdb files.
> >
> > Here is what /var/qmail/bin/qmail-getpw herbie | tr '\0' '\n' produces:
> > herbie
> > 39500
> > 3
> > /homes/homefarm/herbie
> >
> > Herbie (me) has an account on the machine and an entry in /etc/passwd
> >
> > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-getpw judygs | tr '\0' '\n'
> > judygs
> > 11371
> > 20
> > /homes/home21/judygs
> >
> > Judy has only an entry in the LDAP database, but the results of
> > qmail-getpw are the same. Here are judy's permissions:
> >
> > drwx------ 4 judygs users 103 Jun 25 12:44
> > /homes/home21/judygs
> >
> > drwx------ 5 judygs users 92 Jun 13 15:00
> > /homes/home21/judygs/Maildir/
> >
> > drwx------ 2 judygs users 35 Jun 13 15:00 cur
> > drwx------ 2 judygs users 2975 Jun 13 15:00 new
> > drwx------ 2 judygs users 35 Jun 13 15:00 tmp
> >
> > Yet I can receive mail, and Judy cannot.
>
> That looks good. But what about the directories leading up to judygs' home
> directory? Are they all at least r-x for her UID or default GID?
> Specifically, what is the output of:
>
> ls -lind / /homes /homes/home21 /homes/home21/judygs/ /homes/home21/judygs/*
>
> I'm concerned that UID 11371 is not "judygs" or that GID 20 is not group
> "users", or that the parent directories are not r-x for them.
>
> Since qmail-getpw is successful for judygs, what appears in the qmail-send
> logs when you send a message to her? qmail should be logging something when
> it tries to do a local delivery to her.
>
> Charles
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