On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 13:51 +0000, Chris G wrote: > The whole problem is that mail to 'root' or 'chris' or whoever on the > local system fails to get delivered. Just to be clear that it's failing delivery, and not a problem in reading: You've looked into the /var/mail/root and /var/mail/chris files to see nothing being added? (Use a text reader, like "less".) Check /var isn't too full? Show us the permissions and ownership of the directory and files, include the SELinux contexts. e.g. The outputs from: df -h /var/mail ls -ld /var/mail ls -ldZ /var/mail ls -l /var/mail ls -lZ /var/mail -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
