Hi,
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 10:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > After trying this I am unable to login to pop3 or when I issue a
> > vuserinfo command I get:
> >
> > vmysql: can't read settings from /home/vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.mysql
> > no such user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > If I telnet in I get a:
> >
> > -ERR authorization failed
> >
> > If I make a new domain (vadddomain) I can log into that just fine.
> > Vuserinfo returns the correct data.
> >
> > Has anybody ran into this before? How to I go about solving it. I have
> > made sure that vpopmail.mysql is owned by vpopmail I even chmod 777 just
> > to be sure. The fact that a newly created domain functions just perfect
> > backs up the fact that vpopmail can read the vpopmail.mysql file.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >  _
> > /-\ ndrew
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
> ok... I did leave out some details,
> 
> First of all, start with a clean slate on your slave server / new server.
> Drop the database vpopmail. Create it again. On the master computer do the
> following:
> 
> mysqldump -u (adminname) -p vpopmail > /root/vpopmail.sql
> Type the password and you have now made an image of your vpopmail
> database..Get that file over to the  slave computer.
> 
> Then on the slave computer login to mysql and do the following:
> 
> use vpopmail;
> source /root/vpopmail.sql;
> 
> Now you should be good to go.
> 
> copy exactly the /home/vpopmail/domains dir over
> then run
> chown -R vpopmail:vchkpw /home/vpopmail/domains/*
> 
> Of course you want to copy over
> /var/qmail/control
> /var/qmail/alais
> /var/qmail/users
> 
> then... start the server... start imap and you should be home free BUD
> (Officespace)
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> thanks
> -Blake-
> 
> 
After doing all of that and spending a day trying to get it work I am
still getting the same errors as above.

I finally figured out what my issues were. The user and group must have
the same id on both servers. I had read that someplace before but forgot
about it. So yeah problem solved. I was doing it the right way all along
just wrong user and group id's chalk another one up to me being dumb.

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