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Evgeny
Asked: 2009-07-29 13:45:20 +0800 CST

Set up a forwarding mailbox in qmail?

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setting up a simple mailserver to forward all messages sent to one address to gmail.

So far I have a file /var/qmail/mailnames/myserver.com/username/.qmail with a single line:

&[email protected]

I also have file /var/qmail/users/assign with:

=username:localuser:2525:48:/var/qmail/mailnames/servername.com/username:::

test email bounces with error "Sorry, no mailbox here by that name."

Thanks!

email mail-forwarding mailbox

3 Answers

  1. Did you run qmail-newu? Did you include the "." as the last line of the file? Is /var/qmail/mailnames/myserver.com/username/ owned by localuser?

    It might be simpler for you to just use the alias directory. Messages that don't match a user on the system get passed to the alias user (/var/qmail/alias) where they are handled as if the message were addressed to alias-localpart. In your case I think you would create this file:

    /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-username

    And that file would contain your forwarding instructions:

    &[email protected]
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  2. I believe if you do that it will only do one domain whichever is default in /var/qmail/control, if you have multiple domains you should use vpopmail and on top I suggest you install QmailAdmin it'll help you with your forwarding among other useful things and it will be easier for you to manage through web gui.

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  3. Can't adda comment (not enough reputation) but just want to confirm your paths -- I'm suspecting you've just swapped out the real-server name, but a sanity check is always a good thing :-)

    Your users/assign file has a path of: /var/qmail/mailnames/servername.com/username

    Whilst you say the .qmail file lives in: /var/qmail/mailnames/myserver.com/username

    i.e., myserver.com vs. servername.com.

    The other thing to check is that the target directory and .qmail file are chown'd by uid:gid 2525:48 as configured in the assign file, and that the file is chmod'd 644.

    qmail will generally setuid() to the target user's account. When you've configured users up in the users/assign file, qmail will setuid to the uid specified in there. So if perms aren't right, the user won't exist.

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