Re: [gentoo-server] qmail virtual domains + virtual users

[Ben Munat]

Thanks (you too, Dadi) for the ideas. My /var/log/qmail-send/current 
contains over 500k of lines like this:


@400000004095ef010bac1efc alert: cannot start: qmail-send is already running

I scrolled all the way through it... that's all there is. Doesn't sound 
right.

I also can't find anywhere to change the mail directory that webmin 
looks at, but ultimately that's not that important... wasn't planning on 
checking my email in webmin too often. The question is, what is a simple 
way to see if mail is getting through to a user? The gentoo qmail doc 
refers to mutt, which I had to emerge and then it didn't work (I guess 
it's configured to look for a directory called "Mail"... sigh.) Isn't it 
possible to view mail by just doing a less on the appropriate file? Or 
maybe the problem is further back in the chain: maybe qmail somehow 
isn't configured to put mail in ~/.maildir/new... shouldn't the ebuild 
do that for me?

As confused as always... maybe I should just re-emerge... that fixes 
everything, right? ;-)

Ben

PS: hmmm, I just check my output of ps -e and this is in there:

26447 ?        00:00:00 qmail-send <defunct>

curiouser and curiouser...



Andy Dustman wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 12:30, Ben Munat wrote:
>
>
>>So, here's a specific question I hope someone can answer: why doesn't my
>>qmail know how to get messages to a user? In other words, I've
>>successfully sent emails (from the webmin qmail module on the pages of a
>>couple different users) and I can see my messages in the qmail queue (in
>>webmin), but they just die there.
>
>
> If that's true, you should look at /var/log/qmail/qmail-send/current to
> see what's going on.
>
>
>>I suppose my problem is with the mail directories... that's one thing
>>that has been confusing. The gentoo guide says I should "makemaildir
>>.maildir", but webmin says it's checking "/home/username/Maildir" and
>>mutt complains that there's no "Mail" directory in the user's home
>>directory. I've looked through all the qmail config files I can find and
>>I don't see anything about how to set what mail directory to use.
>
>
> qmail traditionally uses ~/Maildir for user mailboxes. Gentoo uses
> ~/.maildir instead. It sounds like webmin is looking in the wrong place
> (for Gentoo).
>
> Gentoo's default delivery is set in /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery.
> You could change this, but should probably change webmin instead. I have
> no experience with webmin, so I have no advise on how to do this.