I had the same problem with qmailadmin creating alias and Forwards as
root... I edited the source of each respective .c file and recompiled and
now it works great...
I think that someone should change the official source sometime soon tho...
Barry Dwyer wrote:
> >> (P.S., it would *really* help if you posted the raw logs, rather than
> trying
> to interpret them for us.)
>
> >From where I was working last night, I couldn't cut/paste out of the
> logs.
>
> >> My guess, based on your posts, is that qmailadmin permissions or
> ownership
> is wrong.
>
> Yes, that was it. In fact, it was the same problem I was having with
> qmailadmin's "alias" - qmailadmin is creating the taxnews-txt user, the
> associated files and subdir's below taxnews-txt user and all of
>
> .qmail-taxnews-txt-subscribe
> .qmail-taxnews-txt-default
> .qmail-taxnews-default
>
> with owner and group set to "root", permissions as rw- --- ---.
>
> I did a chown -R vpopmail taxnews-txt, chgrp -R vchkpw taxnews.txt, plus
> the same chown/chgrp to the the .qmail-taxnews-* and the mailing list
> works.
>
> So, same question here as with "alias": Why is qmailadmin creating all
> the mailing list dirs and files as "root"? (qmailadmin 0.35; vpopmail
> 4.8.7, ezmlm 0.53, ezmlm-idx 0.40)
>
> Barry
