Thanks Mircia, I added another account in the cntrlaccounts.tab file with no problem, but it still gives me an invalid server name. I've tried recreating the file with no more success. I guess I can set up users manually, but how do I set up downloads from external pop servers?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mircea Ciocan Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 8:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [xmail] Re: New user problem Hi Warren, Just a shoot in the dark, but you've configured the root account to belong in the ctrlaccounts.tab, the root account for xmailserver MUST be defined in that file and is very simple, just encrypt you favorite password with XMCrypt and add a line to the ctrlaccounts.tab file, I did attach this little script to help those in a hurry, all you need to edit is the mail_soot variable if you installed the server in some other place than default. Hope that helps, Mircea C. Warren Decker wrote: > I'm a new user attempting to install and configure xmail on a Linux > box at home running redhat linux and having a problem. I've gotten > the server up and running and able to e-mail the single user that I > set up manually(Thanks, Richard Downing), now I'm trying to set up a > second user. I'm using the CtrlClnt command in this format CtrlClnt > -s home.fam -u root -p pass useradd home.fam cindi pass U. When I > type this I get an invalid server error. As far as I can tell the > server name is the same as in the server.tab file and is correct (at > least I can send mail to it). It seems to make no difference what I > type after the useradd command. Is there some trick to using this > command that I'm not seeing? > > Thanks in advance. > Warren -- Attached file included as plaintext by Ecartis -- -- File: AddAdmin #!/bin/bash # mail_root=/var/MailRoot PATH=$PATH:$mail_root/bin echo "This will add ANOTHER controlling account for the XmailServer, existing accounts wil be preserved !!!" echo "Type the user name for new server administrator (no spaces allowed):" read admin_name echo "Type the password that wil be used:" read passwd echo -e "\"$admin_name\"\t\"`XMCrypt $passwd`\"" >>$mail_root/ctrlaccounts.tab - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
