On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 16:31, Thierry Sayegh wrote: > Mark Haney wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 15:38, Thierry Sayegh wrote: > > > > > >>When files accumulate in /var/spool/clientmqueue, you probably don't run > >>the sendmail localhost MTA, and thus the mails don't get send. > >></quote> > >> > >>If I were you I would check my sendmail configuration.... > >>Hope this helps > >> > >>Thierry > > > > > > I do use sendmail to send my mail, but they send fine. So would you > > care to explain this problem? The sendmail config was not changed from > > the way it's installed. > > I must confess this is strange and I am no sendmail expert either. > One possible cause if i remember well from past reading on different > list was the system's messages being polled in there. > Do you check the system messages on a regular account, how do you get > the messages for root? > Thierry The messages for root come to my inbox every day. But since this is a laptop I don't a lot of messages, it's just not used except by myself. -------------------------------------- Mark Haney Network Administrator InterAct Public Safety Systems mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) Kernel: 2.6.8-1.521 GNU/Linux 16:41:38 up 1:58, 3 users, load average: 1.87, 1.81, 1.51