RE: qmail problem

[Anonymous]

The user you want to be to set up the qmail files is alias

 

Assuming you have created an alias user (and all the other required qmail users)

 

su alias

cd alias

touch .qmail-postmaster

touch .qmail-mailer-daemon

touch .qmail-root

 

If you decide to use Maildirs eventually each of those .qmail files must contain the line ./Maildir/ and you must have created the Maildir directory using the maildirmake executable that is in /var/qmail/bin

 

Ironically, I have installed using the RPM and I cannot perform the command su alias because the alias user has no shell specified, I don't know why it was set that way.

 

Alex Miller

-----Original Message-----
From: Radu Malica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 3:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: qmail problem

I' ve installed RedHat 6 and Qmail. I followed strictly the instructions there and i have some problems with ~alias/ directory permissions and .qmail files in there. Some files in bin/ were installed with root owner. Is this okay? I can't manage to do a thing with the ~alias directory. i wanted that user news' mail to be forwarded to joker on local machine, i created ~alias/.qmail-news and wrote in that file 'joker'. Nothing happens. I get some errors like : Could not chdir Maildir. cannot write to /var/qmail/alias permission denied

 

Please help me