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List:       listar-support
Subject:    [Listar-support] Re: Listar and Qmail
From:       Mitchell <mjs () atnet ! net ! au>
Date:       1999-07-24 8:12:50
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pingo

it had created a mailbox for the listar user and was forwarding all
email to that. 

the trickey part is going to be figuring out how to stop qmail doing
that. possibly putting a .forward or somethign in the listar home
directory.

will work on it


thanks for all the help.


On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 12:54:30AM
-0700, Jeremy Blackman wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > listar.hlp is in /etc/listar with the config file which points to
> > /etc/listar/listar.hlp as thelp file 
> > 
> > Ummm I have no idea weather listar is working correctly it's not
> > responding to any commands I send it by email
> 
> Sadly, I'm not terribly familiar with qmail, but I know some of the Listar
> users on here DO use qmail with Listar.  My shot-in-the-dark guess,
> however, if listar.log is never being created (a good sign that Listar is
> never being called) is that either a) permissions are incorrect on it (is
> qmail as picky as sendmail can be?) or b) for some reason, qmail is not
> processing the alias for 'listar' before processing the -user- listar
> (assuming you created one), and thus the mail is ending up in the listar
> user's mailbox. and the program is never being invoked.
> 
> I'd check to see if the listar user has mail in their mailbox - if so, you
> know that's the problem.  If not, maybe permissions.  I wouldn't go so far
> as to suggest installing Exim, though I know a few others on this list
> might. <grin>
> 
> Hope that helps get you started!
> 
> --Loki
>   loki@maison-otaku.net / jeremy@lith.com / loki@lithtech.com

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