James wrote:
> I'm still having a problem with getting mail from the outside world, but I
> can send mail out from root just fine. I'm thinking that maybe my problem
> has something to do with alias? Maybe if I understood HOW Qmail actually
> sees a user on a system to deliver mail, I'd better understand how to get
> this thing working.
>
> How does Qmail realize a user's Mailbox exists?
>
> Here is how I have my rcpthosts set:
> localhost
> ns.mydomain.com
> mydomain.com
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Here is how I have my locals set:
> localhost
> ns.mydomain.com
> mydomain.com
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I have nothing currently in virtualdomains
>
> If I send a qmail-inject to me locally, I've noticed that my .qmail (which
> has a forward in it) sends the mail to my forwarded address on another
> system. But.. if I remove the .qmail from my directory, the mail doesn't
> arrive to the Mailbox. Where does it go? Do I need to have something
> else in a .qmail file to get mail locally?
>
> Thanks.
>
> james
If you are trying to send mail to the root account, qmail will not let you
unless you have an alias file that tells it to deliver root mail to another
account. In the ~alias directory you should have among others a .qmail-root
by default it will have nothing in it. If you want mail to root to go to
you, just put your username in the file and then restart qmail. In my
rcpthosts I have my mail servers name plus the name of all the machine in my
network in it. In locals I just have my mail servers name
machinename.domainname.whatever which was put there during install, I never
put it my self.
Dale
