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And what is the ownership of those dirs
Willy De la Court
Quint NS NV
On Wednesday, June 06, 2001 20:17, Sean C Truman
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> Bob,
>
> Ok all the home directories are 700 bout what does the permissions on
> the /home read?
>
> Sean
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Hobbs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 11:15 AM
> Subject: Install problem: local mail undelivered with "unable to switch
> to<homedir>" error
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've probably missed something embarassingly obvious, but please be
> patient
> > as I've never used Qmail before. Anyway, here is my tale:
> >
> > I've just installed qmail 1.03 on a new linuxppc box (essentially RH linux
> > on mac hardware). I've set up locals, rcpthosts and me; and I've created
> > some users and set them up for mail with qmail-pw2u and qmail-newu.
> >
> > The problem: Whenever I send mail to a user on the system (via manual
> > SMTP), it is queued but never delivered. For each delivery attempt, the
> log
> > shows:
> >
> > ...deferral:Unable_to_switch_to_/home/bob:_access_denied._(#4.3.0)/
> >
> > All the home directories have permissions 700 (drwx------). However, even
> > if I give full permissions on the directory and mailbox, the problem does
> > not go away.
> >
> > It also makes no difference whether I put a .qmail file in a user's home
> > dir.
> >
> > Delivery to ~alias/Mailbox works fine, but that is the only location to
> > which mail is delivered.
> >
> > If anyone can help with this, it would be much appreciated. If so, please
> > cc the response to me, as I am not subscribed to this list.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Bob Hobbs
> >
> >
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