Sorry, I didn't want to make this attachement, but I tried 3 editors and could not copy & paste to webmail account.
I'm running Debian Woody, qmail 1.03-24, vpopmail 4.9.9-1, qmailadmin 1.0.4-1 on our mail server at work. All seems fine until I try using qmailadmin to add a vacation for a customer I created called "test" who is in my virtual domain, hence "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Then all heck breaks loose! Here's what's happening. I've replaced real email addresses and domains with mock ones, but the log is genuine, just replaced the names to stop spam harvesters who may run across this list online. It's a small snip from mail.log. It should be enough to give you the idea.
Feb 1 22:51:32 mail qmail: 1044157892.168741 new msg 258046 Feb 1 22:51:32 mail qmail: 1044157892.173268 info msg 258046: bytes 928 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 16097 uid 64020 Feb 1 22:51:32 mail qmail: 1044157892.186199 starting delivery 61: msg 258046 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feb 1 22:51:32 mail qmail: 1044157892.186304 status: local 2/10 remote 0/20 Feb 1 22:51:32 mail qmail: 1044157892.212068 new msg 258141 Feb 1 22:51:32 mail qmail: 1044157892.214451 info msg 258141: bytes 928 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 16101 uid 64020 Feb 1 22:51:32 mail qmail: 1044157892.227547 starting delivery 62: msg 258141 to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feb 1 22:51:32 mail qmail: 1044157892.227680 status: local 3/10 remote 0/20 Feb 1 22:51:32 mail qmail: 1044157892.240889 delivery 62: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ Feb 1 22:51:32 mail qmail: 1044157892.254696 status: local 2/10 remote 0/20 Feb 1 22:51:32 mail qmail: 1044157892.291224 bounce msg 258141 qp 16115 Feb 1 22:51:32 mail qmail: 1044157892.295284 end msg 258141 Feb 1 22:51:32 mail qmail: 1044157892.370390 delivery 60: success: AUTORESPOND:_Unable_to_create_file_for_[[EMAIL PROTECTED]].did_0+0+1/ Feb 1 22:51:32 mail qmail: 1044157892.408046 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 Feb 1 22:51:32 mail qmail: 1044157892.436959 end msg 257638 Feb 1 22:51:32 mail qmail: 1044157892.475138 new msg 258102 Feb 1 22:51:32 mail qmail: 1044157892.517399 info msg 258102: bytes 928 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 16108 uid 64020 Feb 1 22:51:32 mail qmail: 1044157892.625888 starting delivery 63: msg 258102 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Feb 1 22:51:32 mail qmail: 1044157892.755642 status: local 2/10 remote 0/20 Feb 1 22:51:32 mail qmail: 1044157892.796209 new msg 258162 Feb 1 22:51:32 mail qmail: 1044157892.834212 info msg 258162: bytes 1033 from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> qp 16114 uid 64020 Feb 1 22:51:32 mail qmail: 1044157892.875021 delivery 63: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name._(#5.1.1)/ Feb 1 22:51:33 mail qmail: 1044157893.174077 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20 ----end of log snip------ The file that is being added under the recipients email directory by qmail admin is named .qmail and looks like this: | /usr/bin/autorespond 86400 3 /var/lib/vpopmail/domains/my.net/2/test/vacation/message /var/lib/vpopmail/domains/my.net/2/test/vacation ------------------------------------------------- According to man (written for Debian) format of this should be: autorespond <secs to consider delivery> <max # of messages to allow in time secs> <message to send> <directory to hold log of messages> So, autorespond should send the message /var/lib/domains/my.net/2/test/vacation/message to the return address of the sender and log the message to the directory "/var/lib/vpopmail/domains/my.net/2/test/vacation" correct??? Well, from the mail.log, it appears what's happening is that instead of writing the log to the correct directory, it's trying to send an email to a user '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' , whichs (of course) doesn't exist, thus the 'Sorry,_no_mailbox...' failures. After this writing of the log fails, then the autoresponder complains about not being able to write a file in that directory. Am I correct about this. Well, I guess my overall question is, "Does anyone know why my system is trying to email things to the [EMAIL PROTECTED], instead of just writing it in the directory." and if so, how would I go about fixing this. Obviously if I modify the .qmail file to just specify the recipients email (to which @mail.my.net) would get appended, it would just get another autoresponse and not actually write to the directory. Any help is appreciated. Was this a bug or typo in qmail or autoresponder code? Thanks in advance for the in put. Rodney Fluharty
