cant receive mail

hosler · #1 03-12-2006, 10:44 AM

I installed directadmin and everything is working except mail. I can send mail, but I cannot receive it. Can anyone tell me things to check to see what is wrong?

jmstacey · #2 03-12-2006, 10:51 AM

Check the logs /var/log

And what do the returned emails say the problem is?

hosler · #3 03-12-2006, 02:21 PM

Code:

2006-03-12 13:25:57 1FIVGP-0001T3-2p unable to set gid=8 or uid=1002 (euid=8): local delivery to hosler <hosler@turbinx.com> transport=virtua
2006-03-12 13:25:57 1FIVGP-0001T3-2p failed to read delivery status for hosler@turbinx.com from delivery subprocess
2006-03-12 13:25:57 1FIVGP-0001T3-2p appendfile transport process returned non-zero status 0x0100: exit code 1
2006-03-12 13:25:57 1FIVGP-0001T3-2p == hosler@turbinx.com R=virtual_user T=virtual_localdelivery defer (-1)  
2006-03-12 13:25:57 1FIVGP-0001T3-2p Frozen

what does that mean?

koh · #4 03-12-2006, 03:51 PM

try doing this command in your ssh

# exim -bpr | grep frozen | awk {'print $3'} | xargs exim -Mrm

hosler · #5 03-12-2006, 04:15 PM

that command deleted a bunch of messages, but I still cant reveice anything.

jlasman · #6 03-12-2006, 05:36 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by hosler
what does that mean?

It means you've got a misconfiguration error; exim isn't able to spawn a copy of itself with the rights it needs to write to the mailbox.

What OS/Distribution do you use? Are you sure you've got the proper license?

Did you run the Dovecot conversion script?

Did you make any other changes to rights/ownerships, after installing DA?

Jeff

jlasman · #7 03-12-2006, 05:37 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by hosler
that command deleted a bunch of messages, but I still cant reveice anything.

Which is exactly what it was supposed to do.

It's the commend for emptying all frozen (undeliverable) messages in the mailqueue, and I'm not sure why it was recommended to you. It deleted the undeliverable messages, but it didn't do anything else.

Jeff

jlasman · #8 03-12-2006, 05:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by koh
try doing this command in your ssh

# exim -bpr | grep frozen | awk {'print $3'} | xargs exim -Mrm

Deleting all frozen messages in the mailqueue does nothing to solve the problem.

Jeff

hosler · #9 03-12-2006, 07:22 PM

Im on a debian sarge system. I did a clean install and ran the direct admin install script. i didnt change anything after that.

hosler · #10 03-15-2006, 07:01 AM

I gotta bumb this. I really need my email fixed. Been googling all day

DirectAdmin Support · #11 03-18-2006, 08:51 PM

Hello,

Quote:

unable to set gid=8 or uid=1002 (euid=8)

Sounds to me like /usr/sbin/exim does have the sticky suid bit set.

Paste us what you get from:

Code:

ls -la /usr/sbin/exim

Then type

Code:

chmod 4755 /usr/sbin/exim

John

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