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qmail SNAFU

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cgraham149

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qmail SNAFU - UPDATE

UPDATE - email has started to trickle back in. I received a test email I sent to myself 6 hours ago. Not sure why email is taking so long...

I upgraded my qmail last night and now I can not send or receive emails. It appears that all emails are stuck in the queue.

I am getting the following error in the log:

Sorry,_message_has_wrong_owner._(#4.3.5)

I believe this is due to some file permissions and have tried to change them based on what I have read here and in other forums.

My system:

RH9
Plesk 7.5.4
psa-qmail - 1.03-rh9.build75050824.12
psa-qmail-rblsmtpd 0.70-rh9.build75050824.12

My file permissions in /var/qmail/bin are as follows:

Code:
-r-sr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail     1260272 Aug 23  2005 autoresponder
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail        9484 Aug 23  2005 bouncesaying
-r-sr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail     1037684 Aug 23  2005 cmd5checkpw
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       15784 Aug 23  2005 condredirect
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail         126 Aug 23  2005 datemail
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail         114 Aug 23  2005 elq
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail        9452 Aug 23  2005 except
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       14596 Aug 23  2005 forward
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       19928 Aug 23  2005 maildir2mbox
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail        9288 Aug 23  2005 maildirmake
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       18988 Aug 23  2005 maildirwatch
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail         179 Aug 23  2005 mailsubj
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       31328 Aug 23  2005 matchup
-r-xr-sr-x    1 qmails   qmail        4708 Aug 23  2005 mm_wrapper
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail         115 Aug 23  2005 pinq
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       14612 Aug 23  2005 predate
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       14512 Aug 23  2005 preline
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail         115 Aug 23  2005 qail
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       11780 Aug 23  2005 qbiff
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       10580 Aug 23  2005 qmail-clean
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail        6188 Aug 23  2005 qmail-getpw
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       44200 Aug 23  2005 qmail-inject
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       48016 Aug 23  2005 qmail-local
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       18960 Aug 23  2005 qmail-lspawn
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       14896 Aug 23  2005 qmail-newmrh
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       14588 Aug 23  2005 qmail-newu
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       23188 Aug 23  2005 qmail-pop3d
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       13264 Aug 23  2005 qmail-popup
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       16940 Aug 23  2005 qmail-pw2u
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       14816 Aug 23  2005 qmail-qmqpc
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       18800 Aug 23  2005 qmail-qmqpd
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       23468 Aug 23  2005 qmail-qmtpd
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       18852 Aug 23  2005 qmail-qread
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail         375 Aug 23  2005 qmail-qstat
-r-sr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       15912 May 31  2005 qmail-queue
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail      161024 Apr  2 01:53 qmail-queue.orig
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       44176 Aug 23  2005 qmail-remote
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       14724 Aug 23  2005 qmail-rspawn
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       45976 Aug 23  2005 qmail-send
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       17272 Aug 23  2005 qmail-showctl
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       52696 Aug 23  2005 qmail-smtpd
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail        5420 Aug 23  2005 qmail-start
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       10192 Aug 23  2005 qmail-tcpok
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       10788 Aug 23  2005 qmail-tcpto
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       62503 Aug 23  2005 qmail_install_post.sh
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       25064 Aug 23  2005 qreceipt
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       11536 Aug 23  2005 qsmhook
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail     1011616 Aug 23  2005 relaylock
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       10276 Aug 23  2005 sendmail
-r-sr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       20716 Aug 23  2005 smtp_auth
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail        7296 Aug 23  2005 splogger
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail       18880 Aug 23  2005 tcp-env
-r-xr-xr-x    1 qmails   qmail        2756 Aug 23  2005 true

Can anyone out there assist?

Thanks in advance!!!
 
In addition...

My permissions on the queue are as follows:

Code:
drwxr-xr-x    2 qmails   qmail        8192 Apr  3 19:02 bounce
drwx------   25 qmails   qmail        4096 Aug 23  2005 info
drwx------   25 qmailq   qmail        4096 Aug 23  2005 intd
drwx------   25 qmails   qmail        4096 Aug 23  2005 local
drwxr-xr-x    2 qmailq   qmail        4096 Apr  2 01:55 lock
drwxr-x---   25 qmailq   qmail        4096 Aug 23  2005 mess
drwxr-xr-x    2 qmailq   qmail        4096 Apr  3 18:30 pid
drwx------   25 qmails   qmail        4096 Aug 23  2005 remote
drwxr-x---   25 qmailq   qmail        4096 Aug 23  2005 todo
 
UPDATE 04/04/06

UPDATE - 04/04/06 - I have completed the following steps:

1) removed psa-qmail -

Code:
rpm -e --nodeps psa-qmail-1.03-rh9.build75050824.12

2) re-installed qmail -

Code:
yum install psa-qmail

Checked all file permissions which should be:

For /var/qmail

Code:
drwxr-sr-x    2 alias    qmail        4096 Aug 23  2005 alias
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     qmail        4096 Apr  4 18:40 bin
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     qmail        4096 Apr  4 18:40 boot
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     qmail        4096 Apr  4 18:40 control
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     qmail        4096 Sep  2  2005 mailnames
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     qmail        4096 Apr  4 18:40 plugins
drwxr-x---   11 qmailq   qmail        4096 Apr  4 18:40 queue
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     qmail        4096 Aug 23  2005 users

and for /var/qmail/queue

Code:
drwx------   2 qmails qmail 4096 Apr  4 04:02 bounce
drwx------  25 qmails qmail 4096 Mar 21 09:54 info
drwx------  25 qmailq qmail 4096 Mar 21 09:54 intd
drwx------  25 qmails qmail 4096 Mar 21 09:54 local
drwxr-x---   2 qmailq qmail 4096 Apr  3 18:57 lock
drwxr-x---  25 qmailq qmail 4096 Mar 21 09:54 mess
drwx------   2 qmailq qmail 4096 Apr  4 21:50 pid
drwx------  25 qmails qmail 4096 Mar 21 09:54 remote
drwxr-x---  25 qmailq qmail 4096 Mar 21 09:54 todo

Now outbound emails from POP & IMAP work. Inbound emails appear to be getting stuck in the queue still.

Another thing is that when I telnet to port 25 I get no response, but email is taken in.

Does anyone out there have any other ideas than what I have tried?
 
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