Folks,
I just had to re-install the OS on my server at home, which is using
DBMail. In the past messing with filesystem based email has been such a
hassle that I just told my users that they were responsible for saving out
anything they didn't want to lose, and trashing whatever was left o
Hi,
I installed DBmail 1.2.9 with PostgreSQL support from the FreeBSD ports,
created the appropriate PostgreSQL database, created a user, created the
'dbmail' user, etc... and edited /usr/local/etc/dbmail.conf
appropriately (AFAIK).
I also installed Postfix as the MTA, and it is running fine
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 09:29, Rick Morris wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed DBmail 1.2.9 with PostgreSQL support from the FreeBSD ports,
> created the appropriate PostgreSQL database, created a user, created the
> 'dbmail' user, etc... and edited /usr/local/etc/dbmail.conf
> appropriately (AFAIK).
>
Your dbmail installation can't connect to the database. The log is very clear
about this.
If you can do 'dbmail-adduser s' and get a valid return, then you may start the
servers, if not, fix your database connection before proceeding.
This check is build into the debian init scripts for a goo
Hi Paul,
Thanks for responding. Unfortunately, I don't think the database
connection is the problem. The system has no trouble connecting to
PostgreSQL to add users. The message you are seeing mentions that dbmail
"could not connect to database", but that is because of the other
repeated log
Rick Morris wrote:
Hi Paul,
Thanks for responding. Unfortunately, I don't think the database
connection is the problem. The system has no trouble connecting to
PostgreSQL to add users. The message you are seeing mentions that dbmail
"could not connect to database", but that is because of the
OK, that took care of it, thanks ;-)
My mistake-- I didn't realize how many default children were starting
up. Running fine now, so I will start testing it out.
Once I get this all figured out, I would be interested in doing an
article on dbmail+PostgreSQL for PHP developers. There are a lot
