Bob Hobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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.
qmail switches UIDs to the user account before trying to deliver to it.
Therefore, if the message is for local user "bob", qmail (well, qmail-local
actually) becomes user "bob" before trying the delivery.
This message means that user bob was denied access to /home/bob (if you didn't
change anything to obscure info -- a nono, by the way). What is the output of
the following command:
ls -ld / /home /home/bob
?
> It also makes no difference whether I put a .qmail file in a user's home
> dir.
It won't, becuase qmail isn't getting that far before it fails.
> 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.
You really should subscribe to the list if you want help from the list. I
generally send the reply only to the list, but I'll make an exception this
time.
Charles
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