I have installed the last stable version of qmail from portage ( qmail-1.03-r13 ), and it seems that qmail-smtpd cannot write messeges in queue, because it doesn't have rights to do it: qmail-smtpd runs with user: qmaild, group: nofiles and needs to chdir to /var/qmail/queue, where it doesn't have rights, because it's the owner of qmailq user and qmail group, and only group and owner have rights there ! I tested with another version of qmail (1.03) on a slackware without any patches and seems that it works without need to do a chdir in /var/qmail/queue ! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. telnet localhost 25 2. simulate sending a bare message on smtp 3. in maillog ( from qmail-send, and qmail-smtpd I cannot see anything ) :( Actual Results: it returns error: "451 qq trouble creating files in queue (#4.3.0)", and the message is never pushed in queue ! Expected Results: sending the message in queue, then return a "250 ok" message on smtp !
qmail-smtp doesn't put the files into the queue location itself, it calls qmail-send (via qmail-queue) to do it. qmail-send runs as root and this should work perfectly. you cannot run qmail-send directly. merge qmail again and make sure both qmail-send and qmail-smtp are running.
