Bug 141790 – Different location of .qmail files with qmailadmin-1.2.1-r1 and vpopmail-5.4.16

• Status: VERIFIED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Erik Wasser 2006-07-26 05:22:42 UTC]

qmailadmin and vpopmail are looking/writing the .qmail at a different locations:

qmailadmin looks/writes here:
~vpopmail/domains/domain.com/user/.qmail

But vpopmail looks only here:
~vpopmail/domains/domain.com/ for .qmail-user files.

So the combination qmailadmin and vpopmail simply doesn't work.

[Comment 1 Erik Wasser 2006-07-26 06:40:31 UTC]

Created attachment 92781 [details, diff]
Solution(?) for this problem?

I've created a patch for qmailadmin-1.2.1-r1 (inspired by http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg05785.html).

I've replaced 

> snprintf(NTmpBuf, sizeof(NTmpBuf), "%s/.qmail", vpw->pw_dir);

with

> snprintf(NTmpBuf, sizeof(NTmpBuf), "%s/../.qmail-%s", vpw->pw_dir, ActionUser);

The patch is working for me.

[Comment 2 Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) 2007-07-29 23:15:39 UTC]

vpopmail-5.4.19 (which has just been added to portage) only looks in ~vpopmail/domains/domain.com/user/.qmail{,-ext}, but qmail already checks ~vpopmail/domains/domain.com/.qmail-user{,-ext} before vdelivermail is called, so i do not really see where the problem is ...

[Comment 3 Erik Wasser 2007-07-31 11:34:35 UTC]

This is an old-timer bug. AFAIRC you define some alias with qmailadmin and qmail was ignoring it. After the patch everything was fine.

The next time we update the server I'll look at it.

In the meantime I close this thing.

Thanks for looking at it.