I was getting the mailbox not found on this server error and returing to the sender was because I had it listed both in my locals and rcpthosts file. Once I removed it from the locals file things worked as advertised. I re-read the docs, found the sequence of what the mail is processed. I was able to reproduce the error, then fix it. One thing I didn't do before was do a qmailctl reload to reload the files so qmail-send would process the new settings. I'll update my reference article so hopefully someone else doesn't have to struggle! Thanks to Jeremy Suo-Anttila, he also sent me an email that backs up what I found in the docs. This server does 3 functions, acts as a backup mail server, a forwarder for certain domains, and hosts one mail domain locally! I finally have all three working and understand it too!
* ----------------------------------------- * * Steve Schofield - MCP, CCA * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Microsoft MVP - ASP.NET * http://www.adminblogs.com * ----------------------------------------- * ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Viney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Steve Schofield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 7:25 PM Subject: Re: [qmailadmin] Using Qmail/FreeBSD as front-end server > Hi, > > I'm no expert on this stuff but see if this helps.. > > On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 10:21, Steve Schofield wrote: > > I've setup a FreeBSD server using Qmail, Spamassassin, > > qmail-scanner, smtp-auth, qmailqueue.patch, vpopmail, qmailadmin etc... > > For the setup you describe you shouldn't need to install vpopmail, > because you are simply forwarding on all mail, no mail is being > delivered locally. > > > On the Front-End server server running Qmail, I put an > > entry domainA.com and [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the /var/qmail/control/locals and > > /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts file. > > I think this could be your problem. You don't want your domains to be > listed in control/locals because this means qmail will try and deliver > it locally (ie. on this server) which then fails because the domains > aren't set up. > > You should only have your domains listed in the control/rcpthosts file. > > Cheers, > Jonathan > >
