Thomas Booms EDV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 22 September 1999 at 21:10:10
+0200
> Hi all,
>
> I'm absolutely new to qmail and I'm working on the installation since
> yesterday evening 6 pm.
>
> There are many problems I have and I don't know with which I should
> begin. But there is a language question to you who wants to answer me:
> do you speak german too? If not, then I have problems with some words...
>
> :((
I sort-of spoke some German at one point; but that point was 27 years
ago, and a good part of it was before I knew anything about
computers. I'm afraid we're better off with your English than my
German; sorry!
> Let's go to the setup problems.
>
> I'm hosting several virtual domains and told qmail in
> /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains the names. I restarted qmail-send and
> postings to the domain are logged with the syslog entry "... delivery
> 50: deferral: unable_to_find_alias_user!/". Where do I have to write in
> the alias? I don't think in /var/qmail/alias. I didn't found something
> about the .qmail file in /home/user.
Need to know your exact entries in virtualdomains. They're of the form:
ouroboros.demesne.com:ouroboros
proshaven.demesne.com:bjf-proshaven
demesne.com:demesne
and the second part (after the ":") identifies the user who will
control the virtual domain. I think the "unable_to_find_alias_user"
part is a reference to one of the things you specified here not being
found in /etc/passwd. (In the examples above, ourboros, bjf, and
demesne are users in my /etc/passwd file).
So: what exactly is in your virtualdomains, and do each of the prefix
users specified there actually exist on your system?
And I'd ignore the other problems for now; one thing at a time, and
this is definitely the one to tackle first. Get ordinary incoming and
outgoing mail working first, and worry about relaying and POP users
later. Until you have a solid foundation, don't start building on it!
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