At 14:55 06/09/2002 -0600, Krista Smith wrote:
Ok, a few things .. and this applies to everyone with the problem 1. How many domains in total do you have? How are they being stored (in a cdb or SQL DB)? 2. What patches have you applied recently to vQadmin, QmailAdmin or Vpopmail? 3. What OS is the server running (Krista I know you use Solaris.. is it 8?) That's it for starters, let us know.. -- Steve >That's how I create it as well. I just did another test domain and when you >look at the postmaster account, the box for "domain admin" is not checked. >Any idea where it might be set to automatically make the postmaster the >admin of the domain? > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ken Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 2:39 PM > > To: Krista Smith; 'Dan Muey'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [vqadmin] postmaster should be domain admin by default > > > > > > > > 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 > > > >
