David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
> 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.
I sent a reply to this list a few minutes ago. It has a attachment with concrete
contents.
> 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.
I think so too.
> Until you have a solid foundation, don't start building on it!
> --
> David Dyer-Bennet ***NOTE ADDRESS CHANGES*** [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Thomas
