Can't create New domains or emails

[supanatral]

I posted this on another section of the website however I just noticed (after much google searching) that there is a section for ISPConfig on this site. Please forgive my double post however it's important that I get this resolved.

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I just finished the initial setup of ISPConfig while following this guide:
http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-se...ispconfig-3-p6

I'm having problems with creating a new email domain and sending email. When I sent a telnet email to the new server, I get the following error in the maillog:

temporary failure. Command output: /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to open mailbox.

When I try to setup outlook for the new account, I see this error:

Jan 17 13:12:29 NT-MAIL01 pop3d: Connection, ip=[::ffff:172.23.23.151]
Jan 17 13:12:29 NT-MAIL01 pop3d: chdir /var/vmail/example.com/tuser: No such file or directory

When looking in the /var/vmail/ directory, I see that no folders have been created for the domain or user:

[root@NT-MAIL01 vmail]# ll
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 17:04 mailfilters

How can I get this to work?

[supanatral]

I just discovered something that may help us figure out the issue...

I logged into the vmail user ("su vmail") then created the domain directory and ran the command "maildirmake user1". After that, I was able to send an email to user1@domain.com and the email was delivered to the appropriate folder.

My question is this: Why isn't ISPConfig or maildrop creating the directories automatically?

[till]

ISPConfig is creating these directories if its installed properly. As the directories were not created on your server, there must be a installation problem.

Check the ispconfig monitor if there are any pending jobs in the jobqueue and if there are any errors in the system log in the monitor.

[supanatral]

Thanks for your help, after googling how to look at the jobqueue, I found this command:

/usr/local/ispconfig/server/server.sh

When I run it, it creates all of the directories and everything starts working. I don't know what this command is suppose to do or whether I should add it to the cron job so it can get run automatically.

[till]

This command is already configured to run as cronjonb once a minute. Yoiu can check that with the command:

crontab -l

as it does not seem to run on your system, there must be a error in your cron daemon or cron is not installed at all.

[supanatral]

I think your right. It's listed in crontab but it isn't running:

[root@NT-MAIL01 etc]# crontab -l
* * * * * /usr/local/ispconfig/server/server.sh &> /dev/null
30 00 * * * /usr/local/ispconfig/server/cron_daily.sh &> /dev/null

Where is the file that these cron jobs are listed?

[till]

You can edit the crontab with:

crontab -e

The crontab you posted is fine,so there is no need to edit it. Instead you y´should vheck if you have the cron daemon of the linux distribution installed and started and if not install and start it.