qmail error

[Charles McManis]

The protections are wrong on the mail directory. Qmail is very picky about 
those. I believe they have to be 600 or 644. See the install docs for 
details.

Alternatively the Maildir might not exist, what is in the .qmail file of that 
user?

--Chuck

On Monday 01 March 2004 11:58, Brian Henning wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I get the following error in my mailog:
> > /usr/local/qmailanalog/bin/matchup < /var/log/maillog
>
> #deferral: Unable_to_chdir_to_maildir._(#4.2.1)/
>
> Any thougts on howto resolve this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
>
> > /var/qmail/bin/qmail-showctl
>
> qmail home directory: /var/qmail.
> user-ext delimiter: -.
> paternalism (in decimal): 2.
> silent concurrency limit: 120.
> subdirectory split: 23.
> user ids: 81, 82, 83, 0, 84, 85, 86, 87.
> group ids: 81, 82.
>
> badmailfrom: (Default.) Any MAIL FROM is allowed.
>
> bouncefrom: (Default.) Bounce user name is MAILER-DAEMON.
>
> bouncehost: (Default.) Bounce host name is patriot.lotr.com.
>
> concurrencylocal: (Default.) Local concurrency is 10.
>
> concurrencyremote: (Default.) Remote concurrency is 20.
>
> databytes: (Default.) SMTP DATA limit is 0 bytes.
>
> defaultdomain: Default domain name is lotr.com.
>
> defaulthost: (Default.) Default host name is patriot.lotr.com.
>
> doublebouncehost: (Default.) 2B recipient host: patriot.lotr.com.
>
> doublebounceto: (Default.) 2B recipient user: postmaster.
>
> envnoathost: (Default.) Presumed domain name is patriot.lotr.com.
>
> helohost: (Default.) SMTP client HELO host name is patriot.lotr.com.
>
> idhost: (Default.) Message-ID host name is patriot.lotr.com.
>
> localiphost: (Default.) Local IP address becomes patriot.lotr.com.
>
> locals:
> Messages for patriot.lotr.com are delivered locally.
>
> me: My name is patriot.lotr.com.
>
> percenthack: (Default.) The percent hack is not allowed.
>
> plusdomain: Plus domain name is lotr.com.
>
> qmqpservers: (Default.) No QMQP servers.
>
> queuelifetime: (Default.) Message lifetime in the queue is 604800 seconds.
>
> rcpthosts:
> SMTP clients may send messages to recipients at patriot.lotr.com.
>
> morercpthosts: (Default.) No effect.
>
> morercpthosts.cdb: (Default.) No effect.
>
> smtpgreeting: (Default.) SMTP greeting: 220 patriot.lotr.com.
>
> smtproutes: (Default.) No artificial SMTP routes.
>
> timeoutconnect: (Default.) SMTP client connection timeout is 60 seconds.
>
> timeoutremote: (Default.) SMTP client data timeout is 1200 seconds.
>
> timeoutsmtpd: (Default.) SMTP server data timeout is 1200 seconds.
>
> virtualdomains: (Default.) No virtual domains.
>
> defaultdelivery: I have no idea what this file does.
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