On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 10:45:47AM -0700, Anthony White wrote:
> > The logs should show you what delivery is being made for those addresses,
> > what do they show? Are they delivering or are they failing to deliver
> > and sitting in the queue?
>
> Until I set up forwarding to the system admin they sat in the queue
> as far as I remember. Before setting default delivery to '/Maildir/'
> format they did appear in the '~/alias' directory.
Well, the log files would be definitive on this matter. You could
turn off the forwarding for a while and see what happens.
> > Generally speaking, they will deliver to ./Maildir in ~alias - when
> > you made the Maildir, did you make sure that it and the subdirs are all
> > owned by alias?
>
> As I asked in the posting, what should the GRP and OWN be st to for
> the ~/alias/Maildir ? You mention 'alias for the owner, what about the
> GRP ?
Qmail delivers them as the user alias, so if alias can write into those
directories, then everything is fine. There is no magic in the groups.
> My entries...
>
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root qmail 10 Apr 13 10:25 .qmail-root
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root qmail 10 Apr 13 10:25 .qmail-test
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root qmail 10 Apr 13 10:24 .qmail-postmaster
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root qmail 10 Apr 13 10:25 .qmail-mailer-daemon
>
> Should 'root' own the 4 last in the list or should they be owened by 'alias'
> ?
As a rule I try and have the user of the alias files be the owner, but
if Unix lets the user alias read those files, then it's ok. In this case
since you have a=r you are fine.
To test for sure, su to alias and try and read them with cat or more
or somesuch.
Regards.
