[NTLUG:Discuss] qmail not delivering mail?

[Buddy Brannan]

Hi guyZ,

OK, I actually have another question about qmail after the main, more
important question, but here's the more important question first.

Shortly after the January NTLUG meeting, I decided to install qmail. Like
the presenter at the January meeting (Shane? Shawn?) I'm also a "slackware
biggot", specifically running Slackware 7.0. I spent a Saturday morning
installing and configuring qmail, and it works great. (I've got it set up
to use mbox format mailboxes--someday I might get brave enough to try
maildir and some mailer that supports them, but not today.) Shortly after
I installed qmail and removed sendmail (with the pkgtool to just whole
scale remove the thing), a friend of mine who also runs Slackware 7.0 also
installed qmail and removed sendmail. As far as I can tell, she followed
the same set of instructions I did, but her mail isn't getting delivered
to her.

We both use fetchmail. Apparently if she accesses a POP mailbox with
something like fetchpop, she gets mail and can presumably send it out
also, but using fetchmail, or sending an Email to username at localhost with
a mailer (even just mail) the mail doesn't deliver. It appears that she
has mail sitting in her mail queue, so evidently she's getting mail from
the network OK, it's just not delivering properly to her mailbox on her
machine.

Her /var/qmail/rc is set up to deliver mail to a folder called Mailbox in
her home directory, just using the example rc file included in qmail. She
has a sym link in /var/spool/mail pointing to this file so other mail
programs can use the mailbox properly and will find the mailbox as they
expect to. She has the correct userid's created (or so it appears to
me) and all the instructions were followed. I expect we're missing
something really simple here--anyone have any ideas? Like the qmail guy
whose Email address I couldn't immediately lay hands on perhaps? :)

OK, the second question, not nearly so important: qmail seems to install
all of its man pages under /var/qmail/man instead of /usr/man or somewhere
like that. Should I just copy them over to somewhere already in the path,
or should I ammend my path so that it includes /var/qmail/man? 

Thanks.


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Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV
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