kat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
> I am a total newbie to mail servers and don't know much about them. I
> have installed qmail on my home machine. My problem is that if I try
> to deliver a message to another user and it fails on any account the
> next time i start qmail with ./rc & it tries to deliver the messages
> even when i have precedded it with '&'. i use Red Hat Linux 6.2
> why does it happen?
When you start qmail, it will try to deliver the mails in the mail
queue. That's just how it works. You can manually delete the mails
from the queue if you like - check for qmHandle at www.qmail.org.
> Also, for a particular user it says that the message is
> undeliverable since the mail directory of the user is writable.
This is a security feature. If the users mail (or home) directory is
writable for anyone other than the user, it is trivially easy for
anyone to intercept, rewrite and reroute the users' mail. Thus, qmail
will not deliver the mail.
> Also, can u tell me which email clients can I use under shell mode
> only. [I heard Pine cannot be used].
Do you mean mail clients which will read directly from the maildir
instead of using IMAP? If so, mutt has native maildir support and
there are patches for pine on www.qmail.org as well.
> Can anyone give me any comments on this.
> Thanks and I hope it is OK for a newbie question.
Hope this helps.
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