On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, John D. Bowne wrote: > On Tuesday 06 January 2004 08:27 pm, you wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have posted an update to my "Beginner's Guide" at: > > > > http://www.ubaight.com/xmail/BeginnersGuide.html > > > > Sections I and II have only minor housekeeping changes but I've split > > Section III into 2 sections. Section III is now devoted to examples of > > common administrative commands and Section IV focuses on filters. > > > Hi Jeff, > > I'm a new user of XMail, just built it a few days ago (for my Linux box). I > used your Beginner's Guide to help me through the process. I think that I've > got it running now, but I'm not actively connecting to the outside world yet. > Still using my old Windows mail server, VPOP3 (for the time being). > > I ran into an interesting set of problems when I followed (I believe) your > previous guide step by step. When trying to create a new user as described > in the tail end of section two, I kept getting error messages that said that > something could not be created. I did a fair amount of poking into the > source, and discovered that XMail as set up per your instructions, seems to > need to have the <mydomain.org> directory created under the domains > directory. The 'mkdir' call doesn't appear to be able to create multiple > directory levels in a single call. Once I manually created the mydomain.org > directory, all of the instructions seemed to work.
Did you create the domain before creating the user account? - Davide - 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]
