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Shak
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Location: Huddersfield UK
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 Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2002 10:17 pm Post subject: [qmail] Server receives mail but refuses to route it. |
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Hi,
Im having real problems with the configuration of my qmail emailserver.
It will send mail fine, I can login via the telnet interface and send a mail, out, I can send a mail to it..it receives it (I can see it in the queue) and then it just stays there.
I have read that it is to do with the defaultdelivery etc.
My default delivery reads:
Which should route to ~/user/Mailbox/.
I have also read that /var/qmail/users/aliases needs to be populated...again I have done this using the /etc/passwd file and a command I found on the suggested HOWTO site for qmail
I then read it was to do with the permissions on the users mailbox...
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[i]In /home/rob[/i]
root@lemming rob # ls -l
total 1
d------rwx 5 rob users 120 Nov 25 18:01 Mailbox
[i]In /home/shak[/i]
root@lemming shak # ls -l
total 1
d------rwx 5 shak users 120 Nov 25 18:01 Mailbox
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So they are both correctly permissioned, I think.
I did these commands to get the permissions like this:
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chown -R user:users Mailbox/
chmod -R o+rwx Mailbox/
chmod -R u-rwx Mailbox/
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Yet when I send a mail to either of these addresses ( rob@shak.homelinux.org or shak@shak.homelinux.org ) it just sits in the queue (I can see this in webmin).
What am I doing wrong? Or how can I correct this?
Any files that are needed please post here or email me at rob.shakir@ntlworld.com
Thanks a bunch, Ive spent yonks on this,
Shak
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Rroet
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Joined: 27 May 2002
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Location: The Hague, The Netherlands
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| Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 6:52 am Post subject: Re: [qmail] Server receives mail but refuses to route it. |
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| Shak wrote: |
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[i]In /home/rob[/i]
root@lemming rob # ls -l
total 1
d------rwx 5 rob users 120 Nov 25 18:01 Mailbox
[i]In /home/shak[/i]
root@lemming shak # ls -l
total 1
d------rwx 5 shak users 120 Nov 25 18:01 Mailbox
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So they are both correctly permissioned, I think.
I did these commands to get the permissions like this:
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chown -R user:users Mailbox/
chmod -R o+rwx Mailbox/
chmod -R u-rwx Mailbox/
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Do you really know what you did ? YOu have world permissions on the mailbox of Rob himself, but you gave rob himself NO permissions on this box, this is wrong.
1. Take a look in the .qmail file. A standard qmail installation will say
In other words, it's told to use a .maildir instead of the Maildir you hope it to use. If you want to change that, you'll have to modify the .qmail file and move .maildir to Maildir (don't change the permissions on this directory).
2. If you want to change that for every user, then also change it in /etc/skel/
3. didn't you forget to run "ebuild /usr/portage/net-mail/qmail/qmailebuildfile config".
4. if shak.homelinux.org isn't the actual hostname on the server, make sure it's in the /var/qmail/control/locals.
5. If shak.homelinux.org is to become a virtual domain for virtual users, make sure that shak.homelinux.org is in the rcpthosts and that you modify your virtualdomains file.
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Shak
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| Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the help, sorry I got confused with chmod last night...Ill try that again tonight 
1. My users (excepting root) dont have a .qmail file. Is that a problem?
2. Ill try that.
3. I rang the config file And created the symlinks.
4. Its in the hosts file I recieves the mail.
5. Its also in the rcpthosts
Still it doesnt work :p
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Shak
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| Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks mate, its sorted now...permissions problem on the maildirectory and also a problem with .qmail-default.
Now just stopping mail spoofing.
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Rroet
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just make sure you have a :
1. locals
2. me
3. defaultdomain
if you have those 3 files, everything is secure. BUT, do not EVER put local domain files in rcpthosts or virtualdomains
keep them seperate!
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