Re: qmail-src & DNS

[Dragos <dragos.delcea@farmexim.ro>]

On Wednesday 05 December 2001 02:26 pm, Tom Allison wrote:
> Dragos wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 December 2001 01:54 pm, Tom Allison wrote:
> >>When I compiled my DNS - it ran an error that the DNS wasn't properly
> >>configured (it wasn't) and so I couldn't complete the configuration of
> >>some file called 'me'
> >>How do I do that now?  (DNS is fixed)
> >
> > put in ../qmail/control/me your FQDN of the mail server.
> > that is for qmail to avoid mail loops to itself, and other stuff (qmail
> > will not start if the file is empty or it doesn't exist, and can work
> > with just one control file: me)
> > man qmail-control
> >
> > cheers, dragos
>
> that worked easy enough.
> Now I have to figure out why I'm getting errors of 'sorry no mailbox by
> that name here'.  I did maildirmake...
> More coffee, more time, more RTM.
have you done it as the user in question, or as a root? (just to be sure, 
many times I did it as root, and qmail couldn't write to it)

good luck
dragos