On Sat, 2005-02-07 at 20:01 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Sa, den 02.07.2005 schrieb David Niemi um 19:56: > > 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, > 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. > Alexander Thanks a bunch Alexander, I had forgotten to run newaliases. maillog says user unknown. I had changed the host name and domain, put it in the hosts and network files. These changes were also put in the local-host-names file (instead of the access file). Messages to "root" and "dave" were using this addressing "@me.mynetwork" This all worked fine out of the box so to speak with FC3. The relay=me [127.0.0.1] is shown in maillog as handling the mail to root and dave. The returned message shows the reason= 550 5.1.1 unknown user. What next? Meanwhile I'll continue trying to read up on procmail and sendmail, but I don't know what to look for so it's difficult. Dave
