On Sat, 15 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ok, I changed directory to 744. Set mail up on netscape to receive from
Try 755.
> basicq.com. When I enter password, I get the cannot connect to
> basicq.com, server not receiving now or is busy. I traced the message I
> sent to /var/qmail/queue/mess/. Just as I sent it with no error codes,
> like it is just waiting for the next step. I noticed that the maillog
> was last posted to on July 12, so it is not logging there since I
> reinstalled July 14.
> Any other suggestions?
> Paul Schinder wrote:
> >
> > At 6:30 PM -0400 7/15/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >I have re-installed qmail-1.03, daemontools-0.70, and ucspi-tcp-0.88. I
> > >used Life With Qmail as a guide. I can send mail out using pine. Sending
> > >to a different address, I can receive it on netscape. Netscape picked up
> > >the Maildir, and now reads and stores there. I cannot receive under
> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] which is the mail server I set up with qmail. I have
> > >not been able to make the adjustment to pine to get it to read from the
> > >new Maildir inbox. Here is the ps for qmail
> > >[root@basicq nsmail]# ps -ef | grep qmail
> > >root 488 487 0 11:33 ? 00:00:00 supervise qmail-send
> > >root 489 487 0 11:33 ? 00:00:00 supervise qmail-smtpd
> > >qmails 490 488 0 11:33 ? 00:00:00 qmail-send
> > >qmaild 491 489 0 11:33 ? 00:00:00 /usr/local/bin/tcpserver
> > >-v -p -
> > >root 498 490 0 11:33 ? 00:00:00 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/
> > >qmailr 499 490 0 11:33 ? 00:00:00 qmail-rspawn
> > >qmailq 500 490 0 11:33 ? 00:00:00 qmail-clean
> > >root 11333 5535 0 18:24 pts/0 00:00:00 grep qmail
> > >
> > >I do have a firewall in front of the server. I have made the ipchains
> > >rules to allow the server to work, as best I could figure it out.
> > >
> > >Last few lines in /var/log/mail/messages is
> > >
> > >[root@basicq log]# tail maillog
> > >Jul 12 17:14:27 basicq qmail: 963436467.513805 delivery 190: deferral:
> > >Uh-oh:_home_directory_is_writable._(#4.7.0)/
> > >Jul 12 17:14:27 basicq qmail: 963436467.513962 status: local 0/10 remote
> > >0/20
> > >Jul 12 17:22:06 basicq qmail: 963436926.512758 starting delivery 191:
> > >msg 27998 to remote [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >Jul 12 17:22:06 basicq qmail: 963436926.512908 status: local 0/10 remote
> > >1/20
> > >Jul 12 17:22:06 basicq qmail: 963436926.572078 delivery 191: deferral:
> > >Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/
> > >Jul 12 17:22:06 basicq qmail: 963436926.572228 status: local 0/10 remote
> > >0/20
> > >Jul 12 17:26:35 basicq qmail: 963437195.563015 starting delivery 192:
> > >msg 28035 to local [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >Jul 12 17:26:35 basicq qmail: 963437195.563164 status: local 1/10 remote
> > >0/20
> > >Jul 12 17:26:35 basicq qmail: 963437195.571547 delivery 192: deferral:
> > >Uh-oh:_home_directory_is_writable._(#4.7.0)/
> > >Jul 12 17:26:35 basicq qmail: 963437195.571679 status: local 0/10 remote
> > >0/20
> > >
> > >Any suggestions on how to get this going?
> >
> > It's telling you exactly what's wrong. qmail will not deliver to a
> > directory where someone else can blow away your .qmail files and
> > create their own. Unfortunately, some Linux distributions with a
> > "single person per group" setup can cause qmail to complain, since it
> > doesn't like group writable any more than world writable. You have
> > two choices; change the permissions on your home directory or tell
> > qmail what mask you want it to complain about (conf-patrn). This has
> > been discussed in the list before, and so should be in the archives.
> >
> > As for pine, install mutt. mutt knows how to read maildirs, and is a
> > better client than pine.
> >
> > --
> > --
> > Paul J. Schinder
> > NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
> > Code 693
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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