I just tried creating a domain with vqadmin then logging in with qmailadmin. Worked fine for me.
I wonder what you folks are doing differently. Ken Jones On Friday 06 September 2002 02:29 pm, Krista Smith wrote: > Yes, that's exactly it. I create the domain, give out the postmaster acct > to the customer and he calls back saying it won't let him change things. I > go back and look, and sure enough the postmaster acct does not have > administration rights to it's own domain. For months I've been adding > domains and only recently has it begun to do this. I can manually go in > after the creation and click the checkbox on the postmaster acct to make it > the domain administrator but there must be somewhere that it's set as > default. > > I haven't upgraded anything so I can't imagine why this suddenly stopped > working... > > Krista > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dan Muey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 12:53 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [vqadmin] postmaster should be domain admin by default > > > > > > > > > > I checked mine out to and I think what she's saying is that the > > postmaster account is no longer the domain administrator in > > qmailadmin. > > (ie if you log into qmailadmin as > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > you can not create, delete or otherwise modify email accounts. All you > > can do > > is everything a normal user can do, change password, forward, > > vacation, > > etc. ) > > That is a bit of a problem as we set up domains for people that they > > administer > > themselves form qmailadmin. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ken Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 1:34 PM > > To: Krista Smith; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > Subject: Re: [vqadmin] postmaster should be domain admin by default > > > > On Friday 06 September 2002 01:11 pm, Krista Smith wrote: > > > vpopmail 5.3.6 > > > vqadmin 2.3.2 > > > > > > This probably isn't really a vqadmin question.... > > > > > > When I create a new domain, and it creates the postmaster account, > > > > suddenly > > > > > it is no longer making the postmaster the domain administrator by > > > > default. > > > > > I have to manually go in and check off the box in the postmaster > > > > account. > > > > > I've looked through several files but don't know where this type of > > > > default > > > > > would be set. Or any other for that matter. Can someone please point > > > > me in > > > > > the right direction? I know where to set what default value comes up > > > > in the > > > > > GUI but don't see this particular setting in that file. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Krista > > > > When a domain is created, the default is to bounce email back > > to the sender for any account that does not exist. We switched this > > from the postmaster about a year or two ago. > > > > Why bounce mails instead of sending them to the postmaster? > > Based on experience, the postmaster account will fill up with > > garbage emails and users don't pick up the emails from the postmaster > > account. > > > > You might want to rethink sending all non-matching email's to the > > postmaster account. Most people want to bounce them back. > > > > Ken Jones
