Symptoms

Task for creating mailing list fails with the error:

Task ID        16188997
Queue name      qmail_hosting_5981
Task name       Create maillist 'director' on hosting #1234
Task description        Create maillist 'director' on hosting #1234
Queue status     Failed  
Start not earlier than  11/20/2013 10:01
Method name     taskDispatcher_ on OBJREF:QmailCluster:0:getHosting:5981
Last execution output   truepath     /usr/local/qmail/shared/mailnames/cb/l/5981/mail001/maillists_paths: No such file or directory (errno 2).

Cause

The mentioned file /usr/local/qmail/shared/mailnames/cb/l/5981/mail001/maillists_paths is missing in file system.

Resolution

  1. Recreate the missing file:

    [root@qmail1 5981]# cd /usr/local/qmail/shared/mailnames/cb/l/5981/
    [root@qmail1 5981]# mkdir mail001/
    [root@qmail1 5981]# chown root:qmail mail001/
    [root@qmail1 5981]# chmod 770 mail001/
    [root@qmail1 5981]# touch mail001/maillists_paths
    [root@qmail1 5981]# touch mail001/supported_maillists
    [root@qmail1 5981]# chown root:qmail mail001/*
    
  2. Re-run the task.

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