Re: Authentication Failure :-)

"Neil David J. Roberts" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, in /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery/ i have only "./Maildir" .

No, you have that in /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery, not
/var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery/.  (I.e., it's not a directory.)
Mistakes like this aren't always so easy to catch, and can cause lots
of trouble for you.

> From reading the dot-qmail(5), maildir(5) and qmail-local(8) I come to
> the conclusion that a file called ".qmail" with the user's permissions
> must be created in every users Maildir directory

qmail-local looks for .qmail files in users' home directories, not
maildirs.  Also note, from dot-qmail:
       If .qmail is completely empty (0 bytes long), or does  not
       exist,  qmail-local  follows  the defaultdelivery instruc­
       tions set by your system administrator;
So you don't need all those .qmail files.

This is the part of dot-qmail you're missing:
       (5)  A  maildir  line begins with a slash or dot, and ends
            with a slash:
Look at your defaultdelivery line, and figure out how it fails to
match that edscription.

> like this :
> /home/~user/Maildir/.qmail containing a "./" perhaps ?

You mean /home/user/Maildir/.qmail or ~user/Maildir/.qmail.

This is all a matter of qmail configuration; it's unrelated to
checkpassword.  Mail-Followup-To set.


paul