Qmail refusing to create virtual domains

Had a weird problem here. It complained that I could not assign a password to my user, as the domain could not be created (!?).

This was weird – I wasn’t doing anything strange… so I tried it from the console, logged in through SSH:

[root@webworks domains]# ../bin/vadddomain domain.com
Please enter password for postmaster:
enter password again:
Failure while attempting to remove_line() the locals file
Error. Failed to add domain to assign file
Error: Could not update file

The solution is vaguely indicated there. All you need to do is this:

[root@webworks domains]# touch /var/qmail/control/locals

Then, remove the failed domain, ignoring the errors:

[root@webworks domains]# ../bin/vdeldomain domain.com
Warning: Could not access (/home/vpopmail/domains/domain.com)
Warning: Failed while attempting to delete domain from auth backend
Warning: Failed to delete directory tree: domain.com

And recreate it:

[root@webworks domains]# ../bin/vadddomain domain.com
Please enter password for postmaster:
enter password again:

All Done