I installed postfix with this howto http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-and-domains-postfix-courier-mysql-centos5.1 How do I get the system to create the user's maildirs or do i have to do this manually? I am getting this error maildir delivery failed: create maildir file /home/vmail/hammersoup.com/jason/tmp/1221508725.P20611.www: Permission denied) Thanks
The directories are created automatically when the first email arrives. What's the output of Code: ls -la /home/vmail ? Did you disable SELinux?
I got it to work by doing a chmod 777 /home/vmail Not sure if that is the best solution.... is it? Is there a better way? SELinux is not installed [root@www init.d]# ls -la /home/vmail total 52 drwxrwxrwx 5 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 15 13:51 . drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 Sep 4 06:38 .. -rw------- 1 vmail vmail 1086 Jul 24 10:23 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 33 Jul 24 10:10 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 176 Jul 24 10:10 .bash_profile -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 124 Jul 24 10:10 .bashrc -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 515 Jul 24 10:10 .emacs drwx------ 3 5000 5000 4096 Sep 15 13:51 hammersoup.com drwxr-xr-x 3 vmail vmail 4096 Jul 24 10:10 .kde drwxr-xr-x 4 vmail vmail 4096 Jul 24 10:10 .mozilla -rw-rw-r-- 1 vmail vmail 25 Jul 24 10:13 .rpmmacros -rw-r--r-- 1 vmail vmail 658 Jul 24 10:10 .zshrc [root@www init.d]# ls -la /home/ drwxrwxrwx 5 vmail vmail 4096 Sep 15 13:51 vmail
The hammersoup.com directory is owned by a user and group that don't exist anymore (otherwise it would display the names insted of the IDs). Did you delete them?
i did not delete them. I ran this postconf -e 'virtual_uid_maps = static:1001' postconf -e 'virtual_gid_maps = static:1001' those are the UID and GID of vmail. I think that will fix it.
