Under User & Email -> Advanced Settings I'm trying to get email forwarding to work. Email works fine except when I put an email address in the Forward field, I get the following error in a returned/bounced email: <[email protected]> (expanded from <[email protected]>): can't create user output file. Command output: procmail: Couldn't create "/var/mail/shaun" I'm not sure how to correct this. Much thanks in advance!
Please make sure that you set the diskspace quota of the user > 0 or to "-1" if you want to get him unlimited quota.
Thanks for your reply, Till. Under "User & Email" individual user settings I've got the "WebSpace MB:" value at "300". Is that what you were referring to?
Ok, here's an update. I changed the group ownership of /var/mail to be the "mail" group. Now it can create the /var/mail/shaun file, so I don't get a bounce back, and I see my test message in that file. However it's still is not forwarding the message to the address I specified in ISPConfig.
Ok, I changed the forward value to a different external email address and this is working now. I think my problem was that I was trying to forward the mail to an external address, but I had listed that address next to the localhost IP in my /etc/hosts file in anticipation of migrating the site over. I think Postfix thought it was local mail and delivered it to shaun@localhost. Thanks for having patience with me and I hope this thread can add to the knowledge base for other noobs like me!
