RE: [cobalt-users] Email disappears in the delivery process

[pwc <pwc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 17:10 23/02/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I have the EXACT same problem..  I can ONLY send to Alias's.  Email to users
>just plain vanish.  Let me know if you find an answer.  :-)

I am just a simple soul and don't understand all this clever stuff.
Early on in my attempts to come to grips with Raq2, it struck me as being a
clever concept, once I had worked out the relationship between the
raq.xxxx.co.uk, the IPs and associated domain names.

What we learned from bitter experience was nothing just plain vanishes - it
goes somewhere, and that
1. designated users and defined aliases linked to xxxx.co.uk all work fine.
2. designated users related to www(or other).domain.co.uk can individually
be set to anybody@xxxxxxxxxxxx using the @www.domain.co.uk in the aliases
window and pointing to a "raw" email address eg user@xxxxxxxxxx inside the
raq, or
user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx outside the raq.

The only trouble came when we "accidentally" entered a full domain name in
the "forward to" field. Trying to remove it, only removed it from the data
entry window and not elsewhere in the raq.The result was that my pop server
was inhibited from releasing any email from my raq2 to any of my customers.

This is apparently another "well known" ye-to-be-resolved bug. This morning
a much-too-late response from cobalt(usa) support.

"Telnet into your RaQ2 and go to the /var/spool/mail directory.  See if
there is a pop lock file for the user's mailbox.  It should be in the format

.<username>.pop

where <username> is the username of the user's account.  If that file is
there,
remove it and the user should once again be able to download email.

This may not help directly, but it may be one more piece in the jigsaw
puzzle called raq2 e-mail

regards
peter
moorland




>PS:  For the heck of it, try sending to an alias.  Email on mine does get
>delivered to f.lastname (what is found in alias list)
>Greg
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rob Rosenberger [mailto:us@xxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 4:23 AM
>> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [cobalt-users] Email disappears in the delivery process
>> 
>> 
>> I set up an isolated Qube2 with no secondary connection & no 
>> modem.  Email
>> disappears without a trace if you send it to a user name.  
>> The SMTP/POP
>> daemons generate no errors; the emails simply disappear.
>> 
>> You CAN send email to groups and the admin account DOES 
>> receive cron/backup
>> emails.  The Qube2 just doesn't deliver anything from a user, 
>> to a user.
>> 
>> Does anyone know offhand what I did wrong?
>> 
>> Rob
>> 
>> 
>> 
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