David Niemi wrote:
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 12:06 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
David Niemi wrote:
Thanks for the tips, I tried it an the user still doesn't receive the
messages from the cron jobs via aliases. Yes, I did verify that the
name to receive the root email is correct and I did run newaliases.
I created another user and for this user the mail file was automatically
created when the user was created.
Any other ideas?
Is there a .procmailrc file in the home directory of the "problem" user?
If so, what does it contain?
There is no .procmailrc file in the home directory (/home/daven) of the
user, nor is there in the FC3 backup of the user folder. Once the user
was created and I was finally able to log in I only copied over the user
files and the .evolution and the .mozilla directories. I was leary of
copying anything else forward unless I found I needed it.
Run this command:
$ Mail -s "test message" root < /etc/fedora-release
Wait a few seconds, then look at the end of /var/log/maillog to see what
happened to the message.
Aug 8 07:14:37 Jenny sendmail[31172]: j78BEbAq031172: from=daven,
size=63, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<200508081114.j78BEbAq031172@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
relay=daven@localhost
Aug 8 07:14:38 Jenny sendmail[31173]: j78BEb04031173:
from=<daven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, size=356, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<200508081114.j78BEbAq031172@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, proto=ESMTP,
daemon=MTA, relay=Jenny.daveshome [127.0.0.1]
Aug 8 07:14:38 Jenny sendmail[31172]: j78BEbAq031172: to=root,
ctladdr=daven (500/500), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay,
pri=30063, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
(j78BEb04031173 Message accepted for delivery)
Aug 8 07:14:38 Jenny sendmail[31174]: j78BEb04031173:
to=<root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, ctladdr=<daven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (500/500),
delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30575, dsn=2.0.0,
stat=Sent
So it looks like the message isn't being forwarded. I su'd and sent a
message the same way to daven and it was received. I then went to /etc,
checked the aliases file and the last line has the person to receive
root's e-mail as daven, and reran newaliases, and got the expected
output. as daven I tried the mail again and it wasn't received.
What's the output of:
# praliases | grep root | sort
There should be a line:
root:daven
if you've set up the alias properly.
If it's not there, what's the output of:
# grep daven /etc/aliases
Paul.
