[olug] adift in a sea of qmail ...

[Brian Roberson]

I would have to suggest a vpopmail system ( I use it alot, I highly
recomend it ) http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail


puzzled at home.com writes:

>     I've got qmail installed and running but I have some configuration
> questions.
> 
>     I've pointed pensat.net, 6network.com, and 6network.net at the
> machine (209.58.21.42) and the MX records seem correct.
> 
> 
>     I used qmail/control/defaulthost to change the default name to
> 6network.com but the system continued to send email as
> blackbox.pensat.com until I used the hostname command to change the
> machine name. This behavior is ok ...  I guess ... but it disagrees with
> how the otherwise good documentation says it should work.
> 
>     Most of the users on this machine will come from pensat.com but
> there are a few accounts in pensat.net that need to send and receive
> mail - how do I source a different domain for certain user IDs??
> Something in qmail/users?
> 
>     I chose ~/Maildir as the delivery location so I could run the pop3
> server. The delivery method is chosen by copying the appropriate script
> from /var/qmail/boot to /var/qmail/rc.  I can telnet blackbox.pensat.com
> 110 and I get a login prompt but when I give it a valid userID/pass it
> complains like this
> 
> bb$ telnet 209.58.21.42 110
> Trying 209.58.21.42...
> Connected to 6network.com.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> +OK <60903.974651458 at YOURHOST>
> user nealr
> +OK
> pass Skr1ptK1dd13
> -ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
>    There is a ~/Maildir for my user ID, the ownership is nealr.nealr,
> and I've had it passing email by various methods before. I examine
> /var/mail/nealr and that is where the messages are ending up. I did kill
> the daemon and restart it to make sure changes were read.
> 
> 
>    I've left the full configuration at http://blackbox.pensat.com/qmail
> if anyone cares to look.
> 
> 
> 
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Brian Roberson
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