Am Sa, den 02.07.2005 schrieb David Niemi um 19:56: > I installed FC4 as a new install using the i386. When finishing the > install I added a regular user as requested. I then proceeded to finish > the set up and add the user I created into the aliases file to receive > roots' e-mails. I assume you did run "newaliases" afterwards. > There is no file in /var/spool/mail for the user that I added, just > root. Using webmin from the user account I sent an e-mail to the user > as root and tried searching for some way to create the mail file. I > also tried searching on the sendmail site for a clue as to how to fix > this with no luck. Sendmail itself does not store locally. Thats the job of the LDA/MDA, which is by default Procmail. > Can I just create a file in /var/spool/mail for the user using touch? That is not necessary. > Any other way I can solve this? Check your /var/log/maillog file. Always the starting point. Too run as root "mail" in terminal or console to read it's mail - possibly you find there the postmaster mail explaining some problems with mail delivery for the mortal user. > Dave Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp Serendipity 19:59:02 up 7 days, 2:51, load average: 0.92, 0.79, 0.57
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