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Rick Root
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 12 Oct 2005
Posts: 10
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 Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:36 pm Post subject:
Qmail, local accounts, and forwarding
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I have set up qmail (netqmail-1.05) set up on a centos 4 linux system as
basically a mail sender. No local mail accounts really.
But I do have local accounts set up with cron jobs that need to get
email notification of cron results forwarded to their real email
addresses. I used to do this with .forward files when I was running
sendmail, but I haven't figured out the solution for qmail (all my other
experiences with qmail involve vpopmail).
I tried setting up .qmail-username files in /var/qmail/alias - similar
to the .qmail-root and .qmail-postmaster - those both work... but the
others do not.
..qmail-root and .qmail-dukescp are both the exact same file.. same
contents, same length, same permissions...
# ls -alF .qmail-root .qmail-dukescp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 23 May 18 15:10 .qmail-dukescp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 23 May 17 12:21 .qmail-root
And yet, mail to root works, mail to dukescp does not.
The log file indicates the following:
@4000000044b508391c00b18c delivery 10241: deferral:
Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._
(#4.2.1)/
But I don't know what maildir is trying to change TO, because it
shouldn't be doing that.
What exactly am I doing wrong here?
Thanks.
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Charles Cazabon
*nix forums Guru
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Posts: 805
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:05 pm Post subject:
Re: Qmail, local accounts, and forwarding
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Rick Root <rick.root@webworksllc.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I have set up qmail (netqmail-1.05) set up on a centos 4 linux system as
basically a mail sender. No local mail accounts really.
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Okay.
| Quote: | But I do have local accounts set up with cron jobs that need to get
email notification of cron results forwarded to their real email
addresses. I used to do this with .forward files when I was running
sendmail, but I haven't figured out the solution for qmail
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It's pretty trivial. If they actually are real local accounts, you can use
..qmail files in those accounts' home directories to do what you used to do
with .forward files. `man dot-qmail` explains the (trivial) syntax involved.
`man qmail-getpw` explains what criteria need to be satisfied for qmail to
consider these to be "real" local users.
| Quote: | I tried setting up .qmail-username files in /var/qmail/alias - similar
to the .qmail-root and .qmail-postmaster - those both work... but the
others do not.
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/var/qmail/alias/ is only consulted if the local users don't exist. i.e., if
the message is to <foo@...> and you have a local user foo,
/var/qmail/alias/.qmail-foo may as well not exist.
| Quote: | .qmail-root and .qmail-dukescp are both the exact same file.. same
contents, same length, same permissions...
# ls -alF .qmail-root .qmail-dukescp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 23 May 18 15:10 .qmail-dukescp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root qmail 23 May 17 12:21 .qmail-root
And yet, mail to root works, mail to dukescp does not.
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1. Do you have a user "dukescp"?
2. "Does not work" doesn't mean much.
| Quote: | The log file indicates the following:
@4000000044b508391c00b18c delivery 10241: deferral:
Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._
(#4.2.1)/
But I don't know what maildir is trying to change TO, because it
shouldn't be doing that.
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Sounds like you have a local user "dukescp", and your system-wide default
delivery instruction is to deliver to a maildir (maybe "./Maildir/"?), and
user dukescp doesn't have such a maildir.
I strongly suspect placing "&other_address" into ~dukescp/.qmail will do the
trick for you.
Charles
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Rick Root
*nix forums beginner
Joined: 12 Oct 2005
Posts: 10
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:25 pm Post subject:
Re: Qmail, local accounts, and forwarding
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| Quote: | /var/qmail/alias/ is only consulted if the local users don't exist. i.e., if
the message is to <foo@...> and you have a local user foo,
/var/qmail/alias/.qmail-foo may as well not exist.
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Ah, I didn't realize that because "root" is a real user...
| Quote: | And yet, mail to root works, mail to dukescp does not.
1. Do you have a user "dukescp"?
2. "Does not work" doesn't mean much.
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1. Yes.
2. Only if you ignore the rest of my message where I post the
actually log entry that shows the error occurring. ;)
| Quote: | Sounds like you have a local user "dukescp", and your system-wide default
delivery instruction is to deliver to a maildir (maybe "./Maildir/"?), and
user dukescp doesn't have such a maildir.
I strongly suspect placing "&other_address" into ~dukescp/.qmail will do the
trick for you.
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Charles, that was the solution, thank you for your help.
Posting to the list for achival purposes.
Rick |
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Charles Cazabon
*nix forums Guru
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Posts: 805
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:26 pm Post subject:
Re: Qmail, local accounts, and forwarding
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Rick Root <rick.root@webworksllc.com> wrote:
| Quote: | /var/qmail/alias/ is only consulted if the local users don't exist. i.e.,
if the message is to <foo@...> and you have a local user foo,
/var/qmail/alias/.qmail-foo may as well not exist.
Ah, I didn't realize that because "root" is a real user...
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Not from qmail's point of view. root doesn't satisfy the first condition that
`man qmail-getpw` lists for qmail to consider it a "real" user.
| Quote: | Charles, that was the solution, thank you for your help.
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You're welcome.
| Quote: | Posting to the list for achival purposes.
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And thanks for doing that.
Charles
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