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Re: Switching to maildir problem

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Subject: Re: Switching to maildir problem
From: Kyle Wheeler <kyle-qmail@memoryhole.net>
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:55:07 -0500
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On Thursday, December 28 at 09:08 PM, quoth Guy McArthur:
Greetings, I've tried switching to maildir on a small debian server.
Qmail was working perfectly until this.

I changed /etc/init.d/qmail from

This is a Debian file, not a qmail file.

alias_empty="|/usr/sbin/qmail-procmail"

Not a clue. What is alias_empty used for in that script?

My .maildir is (I think) created properly using the maildirmake
command from courier-imap.

Okay.

Local delivery works to the maildir.

Excellent.

However, all messages from outside are now bounced with an error like
Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name ... username-username@hostname

Somehow, procmail must have been doing something extra to resolve my
username, does anyone know what that would be and how I can implement
it with a maildir delivery?

Nope; procmail doesn't generally do anything with usernames...

I hate to say it (because it sounds like a cop-out), but you're probably going to be much better off either asking the Debian package maintainer (because qmail-procmail is NOT a part of qmail), or deleting it all and reinstalling qmail by following the instructions at www.lifewithqmail.org, so at least then you know exactly what you've configured qmail to do.

~Kyle
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