Re: [cobalt-users] Problem with CMU on Raq4

[Jeff Bilicki <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<NHENKOODEPJOAJFJENJPEELEEFAA.joachim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello!
> I have:
> Raq4i (Production-Server) - with live-sites
> Raq4  (new Server) - a few new sites
> now I want to transfer the sites from the production-server
> to the new server using CMU.
> CMU is installed on both servers.
> I have made all the steps from the manual.
> CMUimport said that all is OK.
> But:
> on the new server all the mail-adresses don´t work correct,
> the pop3-access is ok but no mail is receiving and the sender
> get the following error-mail:

> ------------------BEGIN
>    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> <user@domain>
>     (reason: can't create (user) output file)

>    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> procmail: Renaming bogus mailbox
> "/home/sites/site1/../../spool/mail/j.klein.hmw" into
> "/var/spool/mail/BOGUS.j.klein.hmw.VcxB"
> procmail: Couldn't create "/home/sites/site1/../../spool/mail/j.klein.hmw"
> 550 5.0.0 <user@domain>... Can't create output
> -------------------END
> The solution I have found is that I delete all the mailboxes and
> recreate them. But I have all user to ask for the passwords.
> The transfer of the website is OK.

This is a problem with CMU setting permissions on users that have a period in
there user id.  

You can also fix this by typing the following as root:
$ chown j.klein.hmw:site1 /home/spool/mail/j.klein.hmw

This is fixed in the next release. 

Jeff-