email errors

[Domenico]

Hello,

When I want to create an default catch-all adres in cpanel I get the following error;

All unrouted mail is now going to: info@serpentine.nl
Fatal! Write Failure: /etc/valiases/serpentine.nl. Ignore any messages of success this can only result in failure!

What is wrong here?

Thank you,
Domenico

[Edited on 8/28/01 by Domenico]

[Annette]

Check the ownership and permissions on the file. It should be owned by the user (for whatever reason it sometimes gets set to root) and the permissions should be 644.

[Domenico]

Hmmm, strange. That directory is allmost empty and the file it wants to write there doesn\'t exist.

[Domenico]

Can a cpanel developer respond to this one please?

[Annette]

You can create the file, assign the appropriate permissions and then add the catchall - the system will then be able to find it when it needs to write to it.

[bdraco]

[quote:baf9e66cd2]You can create the file, assign the appropriate permissions and then add the catchall - the system will then be able to find it when it needs to write to it. [/quote:baf9e66cd2]


You could just run /scripts/mailperm

[Annette]

I\'ve done that from time to time when this crops up, and it\'s about 50-50. Now I just usually fix it manually due to the inconsistency of the script - no big deal, since it takes about ten seconds, tops, to fix.