Error Message 'this user has no $HOME/Maildir' ?
Yo. I've setup Qmail on a RedHat Linux 6.1 system. I have decided to use Maildir's, and everything work's fine except for one little problem. I'm currently using qmail-pop3d as my Pop3 server, and when I try to check mail through an external client, ie. Micrsoft Outlook, I repeatdly get the message, 'this user has no $HOME/Maildir', when the Maildir is in the user's home directory, and when I send a message to a user it show's up in file, 'new' in the Maildir. The Maildir was creatred using maildirmake, and is chmoded too 'drwx-- ' and the Maildir files/directories are owned by the same user/group who own's that home directory. It look's fine to me, but what am I missing? Any advice, or solution's would be sincerly appreciated. UrBuN-DeGeNeRaTe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
pop3d config, This user has no $HOME/Maildir
I'm getting this message from my pop3 clients. Could not login in to mail server. The server responded: This user has no $HOME/Maildir Well, the user does have a Maildir. I can see new mail piling up in Maildir/new. It's being started as follows: supervise /var/lock/qmail-pop3d tcpserver -v -c40 -u0 -g0 0 pop-3 qmail-popup checkpassword qmail-pop3d Maildir Any ideas as to what to do next? If this is a case of RTFM could someone direct me to the appropriate section in the FM? Thanks, Bruce.
pop3d config, This user has no $HOME/Maildir
Never mind, I found the problem, dnsfq is failing to return my hostname correctly. That said, any thoughts on this: [root@mail control]# /usr/local/src/qmail-1.03/dnsfq mail.sattel.com hard error [root@mail control]# [root@mail control]# hostname mail.sattel.com My dns server is local: [root@mail control]# nslookup Default Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 mail.sattel.com Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1 Name:mail.sattel.com Address: 192.168.1.100 This is correct as far as I can tell. Bruce Edge wrote: I'm getting this message from my pop3 clients. Could not login in to mail server. The server responded: This user has no $HOME/Maildir Well, the user does have a Maildir. I can see new mail piling up in Maildir/new. It's being started as follows: supervise /var/lock/qmail-pop3d tcpserver -v -c40 -u0 -g0 0 pop-3 qmail-popup checkpassword qmail-pop3d Maildir Any ideas as to what to do next? If this is a case of RTFM could someone direct me to the appropriate section in the FM? Thanks, Bruce.
Re: pop3d config, This user has no $HOME/Maildir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24 Jul 00, at 18:15, Bruce Edge wrote: That said, any thoughts on this: [root@mail control]# /usr/local/src/qmail-1.03/dnsfq mail.sattel.com hard error [snip] Name:mail.sattel.com Address: 192.168.1.100 Is there the reverse record for 192.168.1.100 pointing to mail.sattel.com? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP 6.0.2 -- QDPGP 2.60 Comment: http://community.wow.net/grt/qdpgp.html iQA/AwUBOXx6vlMwP8g7qbw/EQLFtACg8+V4+oQXTSe5iIe9f0tVDMYblBoAoLrN 3lQf5LH+wcTUwRfsX9JO/xWF =QaVZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Petr Novotny, ANTEK CS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antek.cz PGP key ID: 0x3BA9BC3F -- Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk. [Tom Waits]
Re: pop3d config, This user has no $HOME/Maildir
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 06:03:00PM -0700, Bruce Edge wrote: I'm getting this message from my pop3 clients. Could not login in to mail server. The server responded: This user has no $HOME/Maildir Well, the user does have a Maildir. I can see new mail piling up in Maildir/new. It's being started as follows: supervise /var/lock/qmail-pop3d tcpserver -v -c40 -u0 -g0 0 pop-3 qmail-popup checkpassword qmail-pop3d Maildir Any ideas as to what to do next? If this is a case of RTFM could someone direct me to the appropriate section in the FM? RTFM the Synopsis section of the qmail-popup man page. I quote it here for your convenience: SYNOPSIS qmail-popup hostname subprogram You left out the hostname, so qmail-popup interpreted checkpassword as the hostname and exec'ed qmail-pop3d instead of checkpassword. Chris
vpop: this user has no $HOME/Maildir
Hi all I'm trying to use vpopmail to allow user that autenticate via pop3 the user of smtpd. I create a user with vadduser e vaddpasswd then i try to connect to the qmail-pop3d telnet localhost pop-3 i insert: user prova or user prova%virtualdomain pass prova -ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir I get this error if i try with a /etc/passwd users such as a virtual user. Here it's my inetd.conf startup line for pop3 ... /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup rtsystem.com /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir Thanks for help.
Re: vpop: this user has no $HOME/Maildir
- Original Message - Hi all I'm trying to use vpopmail to allow user that autenticate via pop3 the user of smtpd. I create a user with vadduser e vaddpasswd then i try to connect to the qmail-pop3d telnet localhost pop-3 i insert: user prova or user prova%virtualdomain pass prova -ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir I get this error if i try with a /etc/passwd users such as a virtual user. Here it's my inetd.conf startup line for pop3 . /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup rtsystem.com /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir ./Maildir/ .. Thanks for help. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Message: -ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Bob Carpenter wrote: But I DO have the maildir as created by "maildirmake", no? [root@mercury bob]# ls -al Mai* -rw---1 bob bob 19136 May 12 13:07 Mailbox -rw---1 bob bob 8956 May 12 13:29 Maildir [root@mercury bob]# No, the above ls output shows that you have a FILE named 'Maildir'. You do NOT have a Maildir/ directory as created by maildirmake. Delete the above file and rerun maildirmake as user 'bob'. Note: the ls output for a Maildir directory would have looked like the following: drwx--1 bob bob 8956 May 12 13:29 Maildir - Timothy L. Mayo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Administrator localconnect(sm) http://www.localconnect.net/ The National Business Network Inc. http://www.nb.net/ One Monroeville Center, Suite 850 Monroeville, PA 15146 (412) 810- Phone (412) 810-8886 Fax
Message: -ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir
I've searched through several qmail archives and saw this question appear many times, but never found a solution that helped me. I've been following Dave Sills "Life with qmail" pretty much to the letter. OK, actually _TO_ the letter. I'm finding that the server happily accepts e-mail on both of the IP addresses and host names I've assigned to the box. It doesn't DELIVER them mind you, but they sit happily in the queue. It would appear as though I definitely have a mailbox type issue. # telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to mercury (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. +OK 9981.958401059@FQDN user bob +OK pass xx -ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir Connection closed by foreign host. [root@mercury control]# more /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery ./Maildir/ [root@mercury control]# But I DO have the maildir as created by "maildirmake", no? [root@mercury bob]# ls -al Mai* -rw---1 bob bob 19136 May 12 13:07 Mailbox -rw---1 bob bob 8956 May 12 13:29 Maildir [root@mercury bob]# I've experimented with different types of delivery, as shown by the two mailbox types above. And now I seem to have broken it quite badly. As well as: [root@mercury bob]# tail -f /var/log/qmail/current @4000392008fb0ad9d30c status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 @400039200a1207e7e33c starting delivery 1: msg 24123 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] @400039200a1207e9b02c status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 @400039200a120852c29c delivery 1: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ @400039200a1208541e44 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 @400039200a1907d2b944 starting delivery 2: msg 24126 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] @400039200a1907d42c5c status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 @400039200a19083a8b64 delivery 2: deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/ @400039200a19083bdb54 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 As you can see by the Mailbox and Maildirs it once worked, once I started to mess with tcpserver my woes began. Ultimately this is just going to be a MTA/MDA box for MS Lookout clients. Any thoughts, suggestions and supportive criticisms, would be greatly appreciated. Bob R. (Bob) Carpenter CIO-Chief Information Officer RedSea Management Ltd. San José, Costa Rica (506) 204-3300 (506) 204-7090 fax PGP Key available by request.
RE: Message: -ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir
Thank you! It works! Now the mystery is how did I make that file in the first place? I'm SURE that I followed the instructions in the qmail 'INSTALL.maidir' to create this file. (as shown below) maildirmake $HOME/Maildir echo ./Maildir/ ~/.qmail But the directory now exists, the telnet to the localhost has been fixed too. I do notice that, unlike the tcpserver instructions, it does NOT echo back the users mail directory. Or is that not a normal function of tcpserver under Maildir? Bob -Original Message- From: Timothy L. Mayo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 9:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Message: "-ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir" On Mon, 15 May 2000, Bob Carpenter wrote: But I DO have the maildir as created by "maildirmake", no? [root@mercury bob]# ls -al Mai* -rw---1 bob bob 19136 May 12 13:07 Mailbox -rw---1 bob bob 8956 May 12 13:29 Maildir [root@mercury bob]# No, the above ls output shows that you have a FILE named 'Maildir'. You do NOT have a Maildir/ directory as created by maildirmake. Delete the above file and rerun maildirmake as user 'bob'. Note: the ls output for a Maildir directory would have looked like the following: drwx--1 bob bob 8956 May 12 13:29 Maildir - Timothy L. Mayo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Administrator localconnect(sm) http://www.localconnect.net/ The National Business Network Inc.http://www.nb.net/ One Monroeville Center, Suite 850 Monroeville, PA 15146 (412) 810- Phone (412) 810-8886 Fax
Re: Help,-ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir?
michael writes: +OK 2123.948385520@/bin/checkpassword Note that qmail-popup presents ``/bin/checkpassword'' as the domain part of the timestamp in this banner. qmail-popup $HOST $CHKPASS $COMMAND Maildir \ So it's likely that $HOST is not set. -- Tetsu Ushijima
Re: Help,-ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir?
try $HOSTNAME instead of $HOST the command SET gives you a list of the environment -- jmr - Original Message - From: "Tetsu Ushijima" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 6:15 PM Subject: Re: Help,-ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir? michael writes: +OK 2123.948385520@/bin/checkpassword Note that qmail-popup presents ``/bin/checkpassword'' as the domain part of the timestamp in this banner. qmail-popup $HOST $CHKPASS $COMMAND Maildir \ So it's likely that $HOST is not set. -- Tetsu Ushijima
Help,-ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir?
I am using RH6.0 with qmail server! All other thing is OK, but pop3 service? I use Maildir format, I use maildirmake Maildir: drwx-- 2 sting users 1024 Jan 20 21:18 curdrwx-- 2 sting users 1024 Jan 21 00:21 newdrwx-- 2 sting users 1024 Jan 21 00:21 tmp Telnet result: Connected to localhost.Escape character is '^]'.+OK 2123.948385520@/bin/checkpassworduser sting+OK pass -ERR this user has no $HOME/MaildirConnection closed by foreign host. I use tcpserver, in qmail-pop3.init: if [ -e $CDB ]; then supervise $DIR \ tcpserver $VERBOSE -c$CONCURRENT -x $CDB -u$USERID -g$GROUPID 0 $PORT \ qmail-popup $HOST $CHKPASS $COMMAND Maildir \ 21 | setuser $LOGUSER accustamp \ | setuser $LOGUSER cyclog $FILESIZE $FILENO $LOGDIR else supervise $DIR \ tcpserver $VERBOSE -c$CONCURRENT -u$USERID -g$GROUPID 0 $PORT \ qmail-popup $HOST $CHKPASS $COMMAND Maildir \ 21 | setuser $LOGUSER accustamp \ | setuser $LOGUSER cyclog $FILESIZE $FILENO $LOGDIR fi What is wrong with my qmail-pop3? Who can help me?
Re: Help,-ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using RH6.0 with qmail server! All other thing is OK, but pop3 service? I use Maildir format, I use maildirmake Maildir: drwx-- 2 stingusers1024 Jan 20 21:18 cur drwx-- 2 stingusers1024 Jan 21 00:21 new drwx-- 2 stingusers1024 Jan 21 00:21 tmp What does the top level of the maildir look like? And all of the directories from / to ~sting? -ERR this user has no $HOME/Maildir Misleading error message. Should say "unreadable $HOME/Maildir"--and I think the "$HOME/Maildir" part is hardcoded, so it's wrong if you're really using "Mail". I use tcpserver, in qmail-pop3.init: if [ -e $CDB ]; then supervise $DIR \ tcpserver $VERBOSE -c$CONCURRENT -x $CDB -u$USERID -g$GROUPID 0 $PORT \ qmail-popup $HOST $CHKPASS $COMMAND Maildir \ 21 | setuser $LOGUSER accustamp \ | setuser $LOGUSER cyclog $FILESIZE $FILENO $LOGDIR else supervise $DIR \ tcpserver $VERBOSE -c$CONCURRENT -u$USERID -g$GROUPID 0 $PORT \ qmail-popup $HOST $CHKPASS $COMMAND Maildir \ 21 | setuser $LOGUSER accustamp \ | setuser $LOGUSER cyclog $FILESIZE $FILENO $LOGDIR fi I could $VERB1 your $NOUN1, but you $VERB2 all the $NOUN2. What I can see looks OK, though. -Dave
Re: ERR User has no $HOME/maildir (STILL GETTING ERROR)
On Mon 1999-04-19 (14:01), Jay wrote: OK, thanks for your help so far, but I am still getting the error /home/whoever/Maildir exists now, and it has mail in it but outlook express responds first with rejecting the password, but gives me that same error again. ERR User has no $HOME/maildir any other ideas? Perhaps your checkpassword is not working properly. Have a look on www.qmail.org under the "Alternative Checkpassword Implementations" section for Mark Delany's tip on how to check if your checkpassword is working correctly. - Keith -- Keith Burdis - MSc (Com Sci) - Rhodes University, South Africa Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW : http://www.rucus.ru.ac.za/~keith/ IRC : Panthras JAPH "Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from a perl script" Standard disclaimer. ---
Re: ERR User has no $HOME/maildir (STILL GETTING ERROR)
- Original Message - From: Chris Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 19, 1999 2:16 PM Subject: Re: ERR User has no $HOME/maildir (STILL GETTING ERROR) On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 02:01:13PM -0400, Jay wrote: OK, thanks for your help so far, but I am still getting the error /home/whoever/Maildir exists now, and it has mail in it but outlook express responds first with rejecting the password, but gives me that same error again. ERR User has no $HOME/maildir Is Maildir a file or a directory? And if it's a directory, is it a maildir, as created by /var/qmail/bin/maildirmake? Chris
Re: ERR User has no $HOME/maildir (STILL GETTING ERROR)
Did you check the /etc/passwd file to make sure it's pointing to the right dir? Such as /home/whoever. Also, chown the home to that person, chown -R whoever /home/whoever Try those. Reid SutherlandNetwork AdministratorISYS Technology Inc.http://www.isys.caFingerprint: 1683 001F A573 B6DF A074 0C96 DBE0 A070 28BE EEA5 -Original Message-From: Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Monday, April 19, 1999 2:05 PMSubject: ERR User has no $HOME/maildir (STILL GETTING ERROR) OK, thanks for your help so far, but I am still getting the error /home/whoever/Maildir exists now, and it has mail in it but outlook express responds first with rejecting the password, but gives me that same error again. ERR User has no $HOME/maildir any other ideas?
ERR User has no $HOME/maildir (STILL GETTING ERROR)
OK, thanks for your help so far, but I am still getting the error /home/whoever/Maildir exists now, and it has mail in it but outlook express responds first with rejecting the password, but gives me that same error again. ERR User has no $HOME/maildir any other ideas?
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Sorry, I sent that last one using the wrong addy Hi,I'm trying to get the qmail pop3d working, and the error message I keepgetting when I am checking mail is -ERR user has no $HOME/Maildir/home/whoever/Mailbox exists, and I specify /bin/checkpassword/var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Mailboxin inetd.confany ideas?
this user has no $HOME/Maildir (fwd)
Hi i set up qmail and it works fine for those who have shell access but not for my users who login through pop server. When they try to login they get the message: "The mail server responded: this user has no $HOME/Maildir Please enter a new password" I read the man page on "Maildir". My question is how do i set up a maildir if it is not set up when i add a new user? If i have to manually set up a "Maildir" and its subdirectories how do i get the messages in the current $HOME/Mailbox file exported into the "Maildir" ? Also what permissions do i set for the "Maildir" and its subdir's ? I noticed this line in my inetd.conf: #off# pop-3 stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd ipop3d Is this correct ? If so how does qmail-pop3d run? I also installed ucspi-tcp and checkpassword to try it that way. I ran the checkpasswd tests from the command line it worked fine and i have qmail-popup and checkpasswd set to run on startup. # /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup host /bin/checkpassword pwd +OK ...@host user sam +OK pass baker /home/baker It is not a "case" problem. any help would be appreciated. thanks in advance td
Re: this user has no $HOME/Maildir
Your pop username is case sensitive. If the account is named TonyD, then tonyd@pop will not work. It must be TonyD@pop HTH, Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Tony D'Andrade wrote: Hi i set up qmail and it works fine except for my users who login through pop server. When they try to login they get the message: "The mail server responded: this user has no $HOME/Maildir Please enter a new password" I read the man page on "Maildir". My question is how do i set up a maildir if it is not set up when i add a new user? If i have to manually set up a "Maildir" and its subdirectories how do i get the messages in the current $HOME/Mailbox file exported into the "Maildir" ? Also what permissions do i set for the "Maildir" and its subdir's ? === Gone to check FAQ. === Ok i checked the FAQ and i installed ucspi-tcp and checkpassword. I am no longer getting the above mentioned error message. Also when i ran the tests from the command line it worked fine. However now i try to check the mail through Netcape mail client and i get the following message: "The mail server responded: authorization failed Please enter a new password." I am 100% sure i entered the right password. any help would be appreciated. thanks in advance td
