On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 10:54:09PM -0500, Allen Wayne Best wrote:
> I am stumped with a possibly trival problem.
let me just first start by saying quite excellent email. You provided
unobfuscated logs, full qmail-showctl output, etc. Great work!
> May 25 22:32:58 mesozoic qmail: 1180150378.769447 starting delivery 98: msg
> 160414 to local atoka-zidiot@atoka-software.com
> May 25 22:32:58 mesozoic qmail: 1180150378.770424 delivery 98: deferral:
> Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/
> After searching through the archives, and seeing lots of similiar problems, I
> still don't see what my particular hold up is.
and you searched the archives!
> The user, zidiot, is on the same machine as the mail server, internally named
> mesozoic.atoka.org.
>
> in /var/qmail/aliases, I have
>
> .qmail-atoka-zidiot
> .qmail-zidiot
>
> both containing the single line
>
> /home/zidiot/Maildir/
> Further, the directory was created from /etc/skel when the user was created.
> The permissions are:
> ll /home /home/zidiot /home/zidiot/Maildir
>
> /home:
> total 44
> drwx------ 4 zidiot zidiot 4096 May 25 22:40 zidiot
the 'alias' user cannot write to that directory. You should instead
forward the mails to the zidiot user.
Furthermore, the ~alias/.qmail-zidiot file will never be consulted
since the 'zidiot' user exists.
> spftarpittime: I have no idea what this file does.
> spftrustedstate: I have no idea what this file does.
> spfheaderstate: I have no idea what this file does.
> spfguessstate: I have no idea what this file does.
> spfaction: I have no idea what this file does.
unrelated, but also of note.
http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollard/FGA/smtp-spf-is-harmful.html
-Jeremy
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Jeremy Kitchen ++ kitchen@scriptkitchen.com
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