Can't create mail users!

Hello,

I've been using ISPConfig with CentOS for quite a while now and have never ran into this issue.

ISPConfig 2.2.12 with CentOS 5.

I created a test user, here is the output from ispconfig.log

20.05.2007 - 04:51:30 => INFO - Signalfile Set: insert
20.05.2007 - 04:51:35 => INFO - USER:
domain.com_test:x:10220:10098:test:/var/www/web98/user/domain.com_test:/bin/false
20.05.2007 - 04:51:35 => INFO - /root/ispconfig/scripts/lib/config.lib.php, Line 661: cp -fr /root/ispconfig/isp/user_standard_index.html_en /var/www/web98/user/domain.com_test/web/index.html
20.05.2007 - 04:51:35 => INFO - /root/ispconfig/scripts/lib/config.lib.php, Line 717: setquota -u domain.com_test 0 0 0 0 -a &> /dev/null
20.05.2007 - 04:51:35 => INFO - /root/ispconfig/scripts/lib/config.lib.php, Line 718: setquota -T -u domain.com_test 604800 604800 -a &> /dev/null
20.05.2007 - 04:51:35 => INFO - /root/ispconfig/scripts/lib/classes/ispconfig_procmail.lib.php, Line 57: cp -f /root/ispconfig/isp/conf/forward.master /var/www/web98/user/domain.com_test/.forward
20.05.2007 - 04:51:35 => WARN - maildirmake /var/www/web98/user/domain.com_test/Maildir &> /dev/null, Line 106: WARNING: could not maildirmake /var/www/web98/user/domain.com_test/Maildir &> /dev/null
20.05.2007 - 04:51:35 => INFO - /root/ispconfig/scripts/lib/classes/ispconfig_procmail.lib.php, Line 108: create /var/www/web98/user/domain.com_test/Maildir
20.05.2007 - 04:51:36 => INFO - /root/ispconfig/scripts/lib/classes/ispconfig_postfix.lib.php, Line 137: cp -fr /etc/postfix/local-host-names /etc/postfix/local-host-names~
20.05.2007 - 04:51:36 => INFO - /root/ispconfig/scripts/lib/classes/ispconfig_postfix.lib.php, Line 284: cp -fr /etc/postfix/virtusertable /etc/postfix/virtusertable~
20.05.2007 - 04:51:36 => INFO - /root/ispconfig/scripts/lib/classes/ispconfig_postfix.lib.php, Line 289: postmap hash:/etc/postfix/virtusertable
20.05.2007 - 04:51:36 => INFO - /root/ispconfig/scripts/lib/config.lib.php, Line 1230: cp -fr /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/Vhosts_ispconfig.conf /etc/httpd/conf/vhosts/Vhosts_ispconfig.conf~
20.05.2007 - 04:51:36 => INFO - /root/ispconfig/scripts/lib/classes/ispconfig_system.lib.php, Line 706: /etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix stop &> /dev/null
20.05.2007 - 04:51:37 => INFO - /root/ispconfig/scripts/lib/classes/ispconfig_system.lib.php, Line 706: /etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix start &> /dev/null
20.05.2007 - 04:51:37 => INFO - /root/ispconfig/scripts/lib/config.lib.php, Line 1891: cp -fr /etc/proftpd_ispconfig.conf /etc/proftpd_ispconfig.conf~

No users show up in /var/spool/mail

"Mailuser Login" is checked off for the domain

 

Also, if I add a system user with the 'useradd' command, no mail spool is created either.

 

If I send an email to the user on the system, THEN the mail spool is created. I only see this behavior on my CentOS 5 systems.

 

I did a yum update. The following were upgraded:

kernel-2.6.18-8.1.4.el5 Sun 20 May 2007 09:14:19 AM PDT
kernel-headers-2.6.18-8.1.4.el5 Sun 20 May 2007 09:14:17 AM PDT
ipsec-tools-0.6.5-8.el5 Sun 20 May 2007 09:14:14 AM PDT
vixie-cron-4.1-70.el5 Sun 20 May 2007 09:14:13 AM PDT
libpng-1.2.10-7.0.2 Sun 20 May 2007 09:14:09 AM PDT
kernel-devel-2.6.18-8.1.4.el5 Sun 20 May 2007 09:12:48 AM PDT

I rebooted the machine. Now all mail spools are there. Bizarre.

 

If it's any consolation, I too am having some "weird" issues with CentOS 5, as well as RHEL 5 (no surprise there, huh) I'm going to be waiting a while to update any production servers with either one of these products, at least until some of the gotcha's are worked out a bit better.

 

If Maildir is checked off under Server > Settings > Email, do mail spools not get created in /var/spool/mail ?

 

And no mail spool is created under /var/spool/mail ?

 

Yes, I understand the location of maildirs. Just wanted to make sure that mailbox files are still stored under /var/spool/mail. Perhaps this is a bug in RHEL5 or postfix.

 

Yes, but the problem is that NO files were created. Once I rebooted, they were all there. Seeing similar behavior on another CentOS 5 box.