RE: Authentication Failure :-) Sorted Out

-----Mensaje original-----
De: Paul Jarc [mailto:[email protected]]
Enviado el: jueves, 13 de junio de 2002 23:43
Para: Neil David J. Roberts
CC: Mailing List Qmail Password
Asunto: 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.
>

Ouch . . . I'm getting it . . .

>> 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.

Right, so my "/var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery" file [ :-) ] is wrong.
I need to put ./Maildir/ with the slash on the end since it's a dir.
Damnit, this really is a stupid mistake after having spent 5 years with
Linux, igh.

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

I really meant /home/user/Maildir/ but should have written ~user instead
of /home/~user/

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

Sorry for the hastle . . . But thank very much for your help !!

Neil