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mpiter
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 Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:07 am Post subject: qmail: emails do not arrive locally [SOLVED] |
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I configured qmail as shown in the gentoo doc, but root cannot email to a local user. I am using dhcp and do not know which domain name to use. /etc/conf.d/hostname contains "eglantier", /etc/conf.d/domainname has "OVERRIDE=0" and I have a working network. In /var/qmail/control locals, me and rcpthosts contain eglantier.mydomain, and defaultdomain and plusdomain contain mydomain. Of course mydomain does not exist. Under root:
| Code: | # echo yop | mail mpiter
# tail -n 7 ~1/current
@4000000043e86f6027ffa984 new msg 12744
@4000000043e86f6027ffbd0c info msg 12744: bytes 225 from <root@eglantier.mydomain> qp 19223 uid 0
@4000000043e86f6028ff0c6c starting delivery 1: msg 12744 to local mpiter@eglantier.mydomain
@4000000043e86f6028ff2bac status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
@4000000043e86f60293f97dc delivery 1: success: did_1+0+0/
@4000000043e86f60293fab64 status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
@4000000043e86f60293faf4c end msg 12744
# ls -l ~mpiter/Mailbox ~/mpiter/.qmail /var/spool/mail
ls: /home/mpiter/Mailbox: No such file or directory
ls: /root/mpiter/.qmail: No such file or directory
/var/spool/mail:
total 0
drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 72 Nov 7 15:55 ./
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 192 Nov 10 13:47 ../
-rw-rw-rw- 1 mpiter mail 0 Jun 6 2005 mpiter
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Although mydomain does not exist, qmail locally treated the email but nothing appeared in the usual mail boxes of mpiter. What should I do? Thanks for any tips.
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nephros
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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DISCLAIMER: I am not an expert on qmail. But AFAIK it goes like this:
qmail does not deliver to /var/spool/mail but to ~/Mailbox (or ~/.maildir if you use maildir format).
This file has to exist however before qmail will write mail to it.
This is true if /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery is either empty or has only commented lines, *and* there is no .qmail file setting things differently in /var/qmail/alias, *and* there is no ~/.qmail file setting things differently.
man dot-qmail will tell you more about this. (Although it's one of the most cryptic man pages I know.)
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mpiter
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| Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you very much. That was exactly the missing piece of information that I needed. My defautldelivery was ./.maildir/, hence I found everything there. I then did a man dot-qmail and could configure everything as I wished. Best regards,
pit
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Nice to know.
Cheers!
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