That is exactly what happened.
I was able to correct the SMTP problems by changing ownership back to what they were
and killing a couple of messages in the queue.
Thanks all for the help! You're all great!
--James
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load "linux",8,1
>On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 01:40:30, you wrote the following:
>--
>When you untarred, did you FUBAR the file permissions?
>
>When un-backing up using GNU tar ya should throw in a --same-permissions
>option.
>
>- Original Message -
>From: "James Blackwell"
>To:
>Sent: 12 December 1999, Sunday 04:07
>Subject: Please- qmail stopped delivering mail
>
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> We're running qmail with vchkpw and qmail-popup on a debian box and are in
>> despirate need of assistance.
>>
>> Here are the steps leading up to my problems:
>> - We did a backup of the main directories
>> - There was a botched attempt at installing smtp-poplock
>> - It didn't work out too well, so we untar the backups to their correct
>> locations
>>
>> SMTP now appears to be accepting messages, I can see them in the
>> /var/spool/qmail/mess directory.
>>
>> No messages seem to be delivered until we reboot the box. Upon reboot all
>> mail is delivered, but then it starts not delivering again.
>>
>> AND when I telnet in on port 110 it goes something like this:
>> Connected to host.domain.net.
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> +OK
>> user username_domain.net
>> +OK
>> pass mypassword
>> -ERR authorization failed
>> Connection closed by foreign host.
>>
>> The password is correct as I when I do a vpasswd to change it, it asks for
>> the old password, then the new password. It then aborts and says old and
>> new passwords match. If I put in a different new password, it changes it.
>>
>>
>> ANY suggestions would be greatly appreciated. This has to work by the
>> morning (CT)!
>>
>> TIA,
>> --James
>>
>>
>>
>>
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