Eello again, I tried to make my homework as good as possible. I reinstalled 'everything', so all permissions are now default values, except the ones in my homedir. I was able to solve some (other) problems with qmail. Now, I can send mail using qmail. I can receive mail whenever I send a message from my machine to my machine (so local mail delivery is ok). I can not send a message from 'outside' (so I send from my webmail to my 'local' mailbox [EMAIL PROTECTED]) nor can I receive any messages present on a mail-server (allserv.rug.ac.be, which is not mine). If I send a message from my webmail (I consider this as 'mailing from another machine) to my local address, it's not delivered and I do not get an error message (yet, i.e. after a few hours). So, apparently, it tries to write to 'somewhere', but it doesn't work. I can't find anything in my log-files. If I 'fetchmail' my mail from the webserver (so, the 'allerv.rug.ac.be'), it fetches that mail, but it doesn't deliver the mail. I know it fetches the mail since it is removed from the server if I don't set the 'keep'-value (which keeps the mail on the server).
So, my mail cannot be delivered if it comes from 'outside'. Permissions are all 'default' values, except the ones in my homedir. Now, I see nothing special about these (and very 'open'): 755 for /home/kurt 755 for /home/kurt/.mydata (where mail-files and 'inbox' is, after it is taken from /var/mail/kurt) 755 for /home/kurt/.mydata/inbox (file with my mail) 600 for /home/kurt/.fetchmailrc Kurt Quoting Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [...] > > Maybe it's the permissions of the /var/mail > >(/var/spool/mail)? They are set, for my mail-spool-file 'kurt': > >-rw-rw---- 1 kurt mail 0 Feb 17 21:39 > > This is the standard mode for a user mail file so should not *itself* cause > problems. (It might interact with some *other* change you made to cause a > problem, though.) The directory that contains it (/var/mail) should be > > drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Mar 18 07:47 mail > > This is also the first mention you have made of a problem with fetchmail, > or incoming mail in general ... your prior message discussed only failing > to *send* mail with qmail, and then you indicated that qmail-inject did add > the message to the queue ... so you might want to describe how you are > using fetchmail and if your logs report any messages from fetchmail about > problems getting mail. > [...] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
