Hey Peter:
dbmail-adduser runs as guest fresh out of gmake. It relies on MySQL username
and pass in dbmail.conf.
I just slapped DbMail onto a file server that has only a mysql40-client and
the dbmail.conf pointing to an external cluster. Logged out and in as
guest:guest and 'dbmail-adduser s' accessed the remote MySQL servers. I then
used 'dbmail-adduser a' to add a user and alias and it did. I then relogged
as xxx:wheel and untarred dbmailadmin.tar and all was working in 6 minutes
from ./configure --with-mysql. This test defies your assertion. We are using
FreeBSD 4.8-4.10 and Solaris 8/9 here so maybe there is something quirky I
have never heard before about Linux which I presume you are using.
The fact that you are getting messages from dbmail-adduser in DbMailAdmin
indicates to me that dbmail-adduser has been invoked by DbMailAdmin.
("Failed. Could not connect to database (check log)") In the alternative,
the message would been 'access denied' which I simulated by: chmod 500
/usr/local/sbin/dbmail-adduser / 'access denied'.
Please check out the help page at http://library.mobrien.com/dbmailadmin/ I
think there is a more recent version of the DbMailAdmin package than what
you have there.
About thirty other installations running just fine so far that I know of,
Peter. Sorry to hear you are having so much trouble. I haven't heard this
from anyone else.
I must run but if you like I can pass another user along to you; another
recent user who is a Linux wiz who offered to help out....
Keep smiling :-)
Mike
