Dave,
Thank you for the suggestion, however, it still does not work.
Per your instructions, the ~alias/.qmail-postmaster file now contains:
&[EMAIL PROTECTED]
After making the alteration:
I went to another computer, started my EMAIL client (MS Outlook 2000)
logging in as [EMAIL PROTECTED], and SMTP's a test message
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I promptly received the failure message.
QUESTION
Am I supposed to cycle QMAIL (HUP) when I make an alteration like this?
To answer your questions:
How did you install qmail?
I contacted http://cr.yp.to/qmail.html and downloaded the file
qmail-1.03.tar.gz. I unpacked it into /usr/local/src/qmail-1.03. I then
followed the instructions outlined in the INSTALL document, omitting the
INSTALL.alias doc as it was confusing. I completed the steps, all the way
to step 8, and then executed the instructions found at:
http://www.tibus.net/pgregg/projects/qmail/single-uid-howto.html. After
completing these instructions, I then proceeded back to the INSTALL.alias
doc, and when it failed, I started researching the problem on the FAQ's,
docs, mans, and the EMAIL search engine. That's how I ended up here. Total
time: roughly two weeks.
What's in /var/qmail/rc?
The contents of the rc file is:
#!/bin/sh
# Using splogger to send the log through syslog.
# Using qmail-local to deliver messages to ~/Mailbox by default.
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail
Security:
rights: 0755
user: root
group: qmail
However, I am attempting to build an rc.d script to start QMAIL. Here is
its contents:
#!/bin/sh
# Source function library
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
# Source networking configuration
. /etc/sysconfig/network
# Make sure that networking resources are available
[ ${NETWORKING} = "no" ] && exit 0
# Perform a little file checking. Check to make sure the files in question
# exist before proceeding.
[ -x /var/qmail/bin/qmail-start ] || exit 0
[ -x /var/qmail/bin/splogger ] || exit 0
# Define local variables and initialize
RETVAL=0
# Determine parameters used when calling this script
case "$1" in
start)
# Startup the QMAIL Engine.
echo -n "Starting the QMAIL Engine: "
exec env - PATH="/var/qmail/bin:$PATH" \
qmail-start ./Mailbox splogger qmail &i
success
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/qmmain
;;
stop)
# Stop the QMAIL Engine
echo -n "Shutting down the QMAIL Engine: "
killproc qmail-send
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && rm -f /var/lock/subsys/qmmain
;;
status)
status qmail-send
RETVAL=$?
;;
restart|reload)
$0 stop
sleep 5
$0 start
RETVAL=$?
;;
*)
echo "Usage: qmmain {start|stop|restart|status}"
exit 1
esac
exit $RETVAL
*** END OF FILE ***
***
Dave, thank you for your help. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Regards,
Tom Sarratt
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Sill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 11:32 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Alias Support Question
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>1) Actual contents of the ~alias/.qmail-postmaster file:
>
>&tom:sarratt:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>2) Contents of control/virtualdomains:
>
>missionprinting.org:missionprinting-org
>
>3) Snippet from the QMAIL-Send Log showing the failure:
>
>* I am unable to find the logfile, if it is being written, that is holding
>send information.
How did you install qmail? (tm) What's in /var/qmail/rc?
>4) Partial listing of the users/assign file:
>
>=missionprinting-org-tom.sarratt.jr:pop3ctrl:508:503:/popboxes/mprnt/sarrt2
:
>::
OK, so a message comes in for postmaster@whatever and is presumably
handed off to qmail-local, user alias, where it's redirected to
tom:sarratt:[EMAIL PROTECTED] qmail-send sees that
missionprinting.org is a virtual domain, so it's directed to
missionprinting-org-tom:sarratt:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
qmail-lspawn looks at the mailbox name,
"missionprinting-org-tom:sarratt:jr". It doesn't find it in
users/assign (because colons aren't periods), and it can't be a valid
username, so the delivery fails with "no such mailbox".
Change the .qmail-postmaster file to:
&[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and it ought to work.
Apparently you were confused about the replacement of .'s with :'s in
extension addresses by qmail-local. That's not an issue here since
qmail-local will never see an address with an extension, with or
without .'s, in this case.
-Dave
