Re: [webmin-l] Deleting virtual sites disabling email accounts?

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 15/Dec/2009 07:49 Bob Gray <bo...@we...> wrote ..
> Hello
> 
> I have had the feeling previously that on occasion deleting virtual 
> domains can cause the disabling of random email accounts on other 
> domains, but I have never been sure enough to make a point of it.
> 
> However yesterday I deleted around a dozen or so domains on one server - 
> Centos 4 with up-to-date Webmin and Virtualmin - and immediately 
> afterwards noticed a total of around 12 email accounts in 3 other 
> domains on the server had been switched off. Checking the maillog, those 
> accounts were all functioning prior to the deletion of the virtual 
> domains, and immediately afterwards they were disabled. They were not 
> the only email accounts on the affected domains, just what seems like a 
> random selection of email accounts, which had switched themselves off.
> 
> Has anyone else noticed anything similar? How could I go about 
> troubleshooting this?
> 
> There is nothing of relevance in either the webmin.log or the miniserv.log.

This is indeed a bug in Virtualmin 3.75, which will be fixed in the 3.76
release - in some rare cases, it can delete incorrect virtual file entries
when removing a domain.

You can also fix this by upgrading Webmin to version 1.500, which adds
protection against this bug (assuming you are using the Postfix mail server).

 - Jamie