Re: Install problem: local mail undelivered with "unable toswitch to " error

[Bob Hobbs]

Thanks to everyone who replied so quickly!

The permissions on /home were indeed the problem-- it was owned by root and
had the search/execute bits for 'group' and 'other' turned off.

Fixing this seems to have completely solved the problem.

Thanks again!

-Bob

Install problem: local mail undelivered with "unable to switch to" error

[Bob Hobbs]

Hi,

I've probably missed something embarassingly obvious, but please be patient
as I've never used Qmail before.  Anyway, here is my tale:

I've just installed qmail 1.03 on a new linuxppc box (essentially RH linux
on mac hardware).  I've set up locals, rcpthosts and me; and I've created
some users and set them up for mail with qmail-pw2u and qmail-newu.

The problem:  Whenever I send mail to a user on the system (via manual
SMTP), it is queued but never delivered.  For each delivery attempt, the log
shows:

...deferral:Unable_to_switch_to_/home/bob:_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/

All the home directories have permissions 700 (drwx--).  However, even
if I give full permissions on the directory and mailbox, the problem does
not go away.

It also makes no difference whether I put a .qmail file in a user's home
dir.

Delivery to ~alias/Mailbox works fine, but that is the only location to
which mail is delivered.

If anyone can help with this, it would be much appreciated.  If so, please
cc the response to me, as I am not subscribed to this list.

Thanks!

Bob Hobbs