[Solved]: Qmail messages stuck in queue because of permission problems

[Mark]

Found the problem:

/var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue must be owned by userid qmailq and have setuid
flag (chmod u+s /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue)
"ls -l" should display -r-sr-xr-x as permission (the first r-s is important,
not sure about whether the rest of the permission or group ownership
matters...)


MARK

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 10:52 AM
> To: 'For users of Fedora Core releases'
> Subject: Qmail messages stuck in queue because of permission problems
> 
> 
> I have a problem with qmail:
> Incoming emails are stuck in the queue. It seems like the 
> problem is the
> permissions for the queue files - or rather the ownership.
> They are owned by root:nofiles. In the maillog if have an entry saying
> "deferral: Sorry,_message_has_wrong_owner."
> 
> Fixing the ownership and sending an ALRM signal to qmail-send 
> immidiately
> delivers the stuck emails:
> chown qmailq:qmail /var/qmail/queue/mess/*/*
> killall -s ALRM qmail-send
> 
> So I added a cronjob that calls a script with these 2 lines 
> every 2 minutes.
> 
> Now I have 3 questions:
> 
> 1. What do I need to do to have the new queue files be 
> created with the
> right ownership in the first place, so they get processed 
> properly (I am
> suspecting something with the sticky permission flag, but I 
> havent figured
> out where and how)
> 
> 2. I noticed that outgoing emails are still stuck in the 
> queue, but it might
> be due to the recipient being a non-existent address. Will 
> those be cleared
> out eventually or do I have to do a similar fix?
> 
> 3. Could there be any problem with my interim cron solution - 
> for example if
> I call it too often, etc.?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> MARK
> 
> 
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