It looks like vpopmail should be running but its not.
My best idea would be that _something_ wiped out the contents of
/home/vpopmail/
Obvously its trying to deliver to that
/home/vpopmail/domains/africaalive.org directory but it doesn't exist.
It should have at least a .qmail-default file there that handles deliverys,
thats why you are getting a delivery failure.
If it is bouncing you should see a bounce as the next message in the logs
like from <> to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My suggestion would be to first find out if you have any disk errors or if
something isn't mounting or something similar
if not, download vpopmail from www.inter7.com and reinstall.
You will loose all the users settings, but you can add them later.
-----Original Message-----
From: KEVIN ZEMBOWER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 3:07 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Lost password
Tim, thank you for your thoughts. The only reason I thought that vpopmail
might be running is its presence in /home/vpopmail and this file at
/var/qmail/users/assign:
virtual:/var/qmail/users # cat assign
+africaalive.org-:africaalive.org:508:103:/home/vpopmail/domains/africaalive
.org:-::
.
virtual:/var/qmail/users #
However, as I said, /home/vpopmail/domains/ is empty.
The output of qmail-showctl is pasted in at the end of the message. Note
that the host overall is set up as virtual.jhuccp.org, but that at the end
it does identify africaalive.org as a virtual domain. In the DNS,
africaalive.org points to this host's IP address.
Of more interest might be /var/log/mail. Here's a few lines from just a
little while ago:
Apr 25 13:30:25 virtual qmail: 988223425.725303 starting delivery 534: msg
2979628 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apr 25 13:30:25 virtual qmail: 988223425.725460 status: local 1/10 remote
0/120
Apr 25 13:30:25 virtual qmail: 988223425.730723 delivery 534: failure:
Unable_to_switch_to_/home/vpopmail/domains/africaalive.org:_a
Apr 25 13:30:25 virtual qmail: 988223425.732798 status: local 0/10 remote
0/120
Apr 25 13:30:25 virtual qmail: 988223425.755274 bounce msg 2979628 qp 16342
Apr 25 13:30:25 virtual qmail: 988223425.755656 end msg 2979628
Apr 25 13:30:25 virtual qmail: 988223425.756167 new msg 2979629
In the first entry, "jdelaney" is my coworker who's now getting the
messages, but her real address would be "@jhuccp.org" rather than
"@africaalive.org", which is what the original poster sent the email to.
The third line is obviously a failure. But, does the fifth line indicate
that the message bounced back to the original sender? Up until about a week
ago, messages to africaalive.org were going through correctly. Now however,
on one occasion I got the message "Transcript of session follows:
africaalive.org 450 Host down." I don't know if other messages are bouncing.
Thanks, Tim for your thoughts and suggestions on my problem.
-Kevin
>>> "Tim Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/25/01 01:41PM >>>
I seriously doubt this machine is running vpopmail, maybe it did at one time
but not now.
What is the output of /var/qmail/bin/qmail-showctl
Or better still what do some logs say about deliverys?
�---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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virtual:/var/qmail/users # /var/qmail/bin/qmail-showctl
qmail home directory: /var/qmail.
user-ext delimiter: -.
paternalism (in decimal): 2.
silent concurrency limit: 120.
subdirectory split: 23.
user ids: 501, 502, 503, 0, 504, 505, 506, 507.
group ids: 101, 102.
badmailfrom: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is allowed.
bouncefrom: (Default.) Bounce user name is MAILER-DAEMON.
bouncehost: (Default.) Bounce host name is virtual.jhuccp.org.
concurrencylocal: (Default.) Local concurrency is 10.
concurrencyremote: Remote concurrency is 255.
databytes: (Default.) SMTP DATA limit is 0 bytes.
defaultdomain: Default domain name is jhuccp.org.
defaulthost: (Default.) Default host name is virtual.jhuccp.org.
doublebouncehost: (Default.) 2B recipient host: virtual.jhuccp.org.
doublebounceto: (Default.) 2B recipient user: postmaster.
envnoathost: (Default.) Presumed domain name is virtual.jhuccp.org.
helohost: (Default.) SMTP client HELO host name is virtual.jhuccp.org.
idhost: (Default.) Message-ID host name is virtual.jhuccp.org.
localiphost: (Default.) Local IP address becomes virtual.jhuccp.org.
locals:
Messages for localhost are delivered locally.
Messages for virtual.jhuccp.org are delivered locally.
me: My name is virtual.jhuccp.org.
percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not allowed.
plusdomain: Plus domain name is jhuccp.org.
qmqpservers: (Default.) No QMQP servers.
queuelifetime: (Default.) Message lifetime in the queue is 604800 seconds.
rcpthosts:
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at localhost.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at virtual.jhuccp.org.
SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at africaalive.org.
morercpthosts: (Default.) No effect.
morercpthosts.cdb: (Default.) No effect.
smtpgreeting: (Default.) SMTP greeting: 220 virtual.jhuccp.org.
smtproutes: (Default.) No artificial SMTP routes.
timeoutconnect: (Default.) SMTP client connection timeout is 60 seconds.
timeoutremote: (Default.) SMTP client data timeout is 1200 seconds.
timeoutsmtpd: (Default.) SMTP server data timeout is 1200 seconds.
virtualdomains:
Virtual domain: africaalive.org:africaalive.org
virtual:/var/qmail/users #
