[NTLUG:Discuss] qmail virtual mail help please

Keith From kfrom at cbssolutions.com
Thu Sep 30 11:01:14 CDT 1999


I have RTFM, man pages, and qmail archives and I dont
see why this doesnt work. Perhaps someone here can
see what I am overlooking.

I am setting up 4 mail boxes for laiken.com
Here are my files and what I have done.

/var/qmail/control/virtualdomains
laiken.com:laiken001
laiken.com:laiken002
laiken.com:laiken003
laiken.com:laiken004
southwestern-av.com:swav001

/var/qmail/control/rcpthosts
localhost
cbssolutions.com
mail.cbssolutions.com
laiken.com
southwestern-av.com

/var/qmail/control/locals
localhost
cbssolutions.com
mail.cbssolutions.com

I did and adduser laiken001
I did and adduser laiken002
I did and adduser laiken003
I did and adduser laiken004
and set the passwords

I did a su laiken001 -c '/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake ~/Maildir'
I did a su laiken002 -c '/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake ~/Maildir'
I did a su laiken003 -c '/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake ~/Maildir'
I did a su laiken004 -c '/var/qmail/bin/maildirmake ~/Maildir'

I added a .qmail file to each:
laiken001 has .qmail-brian
laiken002 has .qmail-info
laiken003 has .qmail-webmaster
laiken004 has .qmail-postmaster

and last, but not least, when I was finished, I did:
killall -HUP qmail-send

Now, whenever I send an email to any of the 4 addresses:
brian at laiken.com
info at laiken.com
webmaster at laiken.com
postmaster at laiken.com

it gets bounced:
Sorry, no mailbox here by that name. (#5.1.1)

what am I missing here.

Thanks a million,
Keith


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