Qmail Delivery with vpopmail [SOLVED]

[cypherscout]

Hello, I have read a number of posts and documents and felt the need to seek help after 10+ hours of troublehsooting. Yet another posting regarding qmail + vpopmail + courier-imap-ssl
So here goes, relatively simple one would think:
Main Issue: Qmail is not delivering messages to /var/vpopmail/domains/mydomoain.com/user/.maildir, but instead looks for an actual user account.
If it finds one, it delivers it to the users local .maildir in their /home/user/ directory. If it doesn't find one, the message seemingly disppears.

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#cat /var/vpopmail/domains/mydomain.com/.qmail-default
| /var/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox

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#cat /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery
| /var/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox

I read /var/vpopmail/doc/README.vqmaillocal.gz and followed the instructions therein.

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Todo:
1) process .qmail-"user" files and .qmail-default file

How to install:
1) mv /var/qmail/bin/qmail-local /var/qmail/bin/qmail-local.orig
2) cp vqmaillocal /var/qmail/bin/qmail-local

However, after doing so I really didn't get anywhere except that I noticed what looks to be permission issues with some files/directories from the following logs.

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#tail /var/log/qmail/qmail-send/current
@4000000041d5826021139914 delivery 15: deferral: vmysql:_can't_read_settings_from_/var/vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.mysql//var/qmail/alias,test123,mydomain.com/
@4000000041d582602113cbdc status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
@4000000041d582c6210b5bb4 starting delivery 16: msg 426649 to local test123@mydomain.com
@4000000041d582c6210b7af4 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
@4000000041d582c621aadbbc delivery 16: deferral: vmysql:_can't_read_settings_from_/var/vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.mysql//var/qmail/alias,test123,mydomain.com/
@4000000041d582c621ab126c status: local 0/10 remote 0/20
@4000000041d583f021a430b4 starting delivery 17: msg 426651 to local test123@mydomain.com
@4000000041d583f021a457c4 status: local 1/10 remote 0/20
@4000000041d583f0224389ac delivery 17: deferral: vmysql:_can't_read_settings_from_/var/vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.mysql//var/qmail/alias,test123,mydomain.com/
@4000000041d583f02243c05c status: local 0/10 remote 0/20

Am I missing anything else? I sure hope someone can shed some light on this stuff for me. Thank you in advance!

[cypherscout]

I have read that if your virtual domain name is indentical to the domain name of your mail server, it will ONLY attempt a delivery to local users. Am I wrong? And if it is true, how do I change it without changing a domain name?

[sarge]

use FQDM as your local domain eg. mail.domain.com and domain name as vitrualdomain created by vpopmail eg. domain.com.

[cypherscout]

Thank you sarge, it was only after doing a fesh install of everything and stopping to think for a second that I realized that is what I had to do. The how-to could use an amendment as it is slightly unclear about this point.

SOLVED

[t0mcat]

i'm having exactly the same problem, but i didn't solve changing control files as sarge said...

[newtonian]

After doing a emerge -u world and having courier updated I started getting

delivery 15: failure: Sorry,_no_mailbox_here_by_that_name

error in my /var/log/qmail/qmail-send/current log

I wasn't able to send mail to new accounts set up on the system.

I added

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 | /var/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox

to /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery. (don't know if this helped or is even necessary)

/**** FOLLOW UP ********/

I showed the /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery
setting to the guys in the qmailadmin list and
they didn't like it. They said that I should reset it
to the original value. So I reset it to :

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./.maildir/

Here's what he had to say:

On Feb 7, 2005, at 12:13 PM, David Sperling wrote:

> I added | /var/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox
> to /var/qmail/control/defaultdelivery. (don't know if this helped or is even necessary)
>
> Then deleted the contents of /var/qmail/control/locals
> restarted svscan and everything began to work again.


I don't think that changing defaultdelivery like that was a good idea.
You should change it back to whatever it was originally.
I don't know about gentoo, but on a standard
install it's set to './Maildir/'.

Look at the .qmail-default file for the domain
that's causing problems, and make sure it's set to
the string you listed above.

--
Tom Collins - tom@tomlogic.com
QmailAdmin: http://qmailadmin.sf.net/ Vpopmail: http://vpopmail.sf.net/
Info on the Sniffter hand-held Network Tester: http://sniffter.com/

/**** END FOLLOW UP ********/


Then did

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hawk control # echo "" > /var/qmail/control/locals
hawk control # /etc/init.d/svscan restart

as per the advice in this topic. Then qmail, vpopmail and qmailadmin began to work perfectly again.