Re: vexim not creating local delivery folders

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Free BSD <[email protected]> wrote:
> Avleen Vig wrote:
>> Hi!
>> I think you're experiencing something quite common.
>> It's both a bug and a feature, of both vexim and exim :-)
>> I thought I had fixed it in vexim long ago, but no-one's really
>> complained so I haven't worried about it :)
>>
>> Vexim does not create any directories or files on the filesystem.
>> The directories are supposed to be created the first time a message is
>> sent to an account, by Exim. They won't exist until they receive the
>> first mail.
>>
>> There was a work around which caused Vexim to send an email to new
>> accounts, but it hasn't worked quite right.
>> Try sending the account you created a new email and see if the entire
>> directory structure is created.
>>
> Dear Avleen
> Thank you for your response.
>
> I tried as you suggested. I sent a mail through the telnet session at
> port 25. Everything went well until I finished it, the last line said
>
> 451 Temporary local problem - please try later
>
> the mainlog said
> temporarily rejected after DATA
>
> and so said the rejectlog.
>
> I can manually create the folders -- and it will more likely work. But
> I'd prefer this to be automated.

While you clearly won't want to create all of them manually, it may be
worthwhile to do it for one account to see if it can write mail to the
folder, which may help you troubleshoot if permissions are the issue.
Google searches on "temporarily rejected after DATA" seem to come up
with many things that you could try as well.