Yes manually fixing the perms on ...lock/trigger has fixed it! I'm
very relieved. I thought I was going to have to install a different
mail server...
Cheers
Jesse
At 19:51 +0100 12/11/00, Alexander Jernejcic wrote:
>hi,
>IMHO chmod should do the trick...
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jesse Reynolds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2000 5:13 AM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: Re: very slow delivery
>>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am having the same problem, where it takes 20 minutes for mail to
>> be delivered, whether it's remote to local, local to remote, or local
>> to local.
>>
>> It seems that indeed the permissions on the trigger file are
>> wrong, mine is:
>>
>> prw------- 1 qmails qmail 0 Oct 23 02:27 /var/qmail/queue/lock/trigger
>>
>> Now, it has been taking 20 minutes to delever ever since I installed
>> it. So presumably my installation didn't work properly, or has bugs
>> in it. I'm using the FreeBSD ports collection to install qmail.
>>
>> I am confused about Magnus's suggestion on how to fix it, ie do a
>> "make setup" from the qmail source. Would it not be enough to
>> manually fix the permissions with chmod?
>>
>> If I cd to /usr/ports/mail/qmail and do "make setup" it response with
>> "don't know how to make setup".
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Jesse
>>
>> PS, this would be an excellent thing to have in the FAQ! It seems
>> many people are having this problem.
>>
>> >
>> >On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 05:09:47PM +0200, Mirko Koenig wrote:
>> >
>> > > now the delivery and sending of messages takes 20 min.
>> > > i write a message eg. in pine send it and then have to wait
>> up to 20 min
>> > > till its delivered.
>> >
>> >check the permissions of "/var/qmail/queue/lock/trigger"
>> >
>> ># ls -l /var/qmail/queue/lock/
>> >total 1
>> >-rw------- 1 qmails qmail 0 Mar 2 1999 sendmutex
>> >-rw-r--r-- 1 qmailr qmail 1024 Jul 1 19:58 tcpto
>> >prw--w--w- 1 qmails qmail 0 Jul 1 20:58 trigger
>> >^^^^^^^^^^
>> >
>> >If it doesn't is "prw--w--w-", then do a "make setup" from the
>> qmail source
>> >library again.
>> >
>> >/magnus
>> >
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>> Email: jesse (at) va.com.au - http://virtual.artists
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