On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 03:13:13AM +1030, Tim wrote:
> 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
>
Look at my earlier postings with contents of maillog, you can see
sendmail accepting the E-Mail and then trying to send it to the
outside world, which fails. Since this machine doesn't accept
incoming SMTP connections once the mail has been sent out it can never
get back in.
The issue is that I can't persuade sendmail to deliver mail locally
direct to user's mail spool.
There's masses of disk space available anyway:-
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
287G 157G 116G 58% /
and ls -lL /var/mail
total 144
-rw-rw---- 1 apache mail 0 2007-09-24 15:14 apache
-rw-rw---- 1 avahi mail 0 2007-09-24 15:16 avahi
-rw-rw---- 1 ben mail 0 2007-09-24 16:53 ben
-rw-rw---- 1 chris mail 23669 2007-11-12 10:12 chris
-rw-rw---- 1 dbus mail 0 2007-09-24 15:16 dbus
-rw-rw---- 1 distcache mail 0 2007-09-24 15:14 distcache
-rw-rw---- 1 500 mail 0 2007-09-24 15:53 fedora
-rw-rw---- 1 gdm mail 0 2007-09-24 15:21 gdm
-rw-rw---- 1 haldaemon mail 0 2007-09-24 15:17 haldaemon
-rw-rw---- 1 hsqldb mail 0 2007-09-24 15:17 hsqldb
-rw-rw---- 1 isbd mail 0 2007-09-24 16:53 isbd
-rw-rw---- 1 mailnull mail 0 2007-09-24 15:14 mailnull
-rw-rw---- 1 maxine mail 0 2007-09-24 16:53 maxine
-rw-rw---- 1 mysql mail 0 2007-10-01 22:19 mysql
-rw-rw---- 1 nfsnobody mail 0 2007-09-24 15:17 nfsnobody
-rw-rw---- 1 nscd mail 0 2007-09-24 15:14 nscd
-rw-rw---- 1 ntp mail 0 2007-09-24 15:14 ntp
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2007-11-10 05:33 root
-rw-rw---- 1 rpc mail 0 2007-09-24 15:14 rpc
-rw-rw---- 1 rpcuser mail 0 2007-09-24 15:17 rpcuser
-rw-rw---- 1 rpm mail 0 2007-09-24 15:13 rpm
-rw-rw---- 1 smmsp mail 0 2007-09-24 15:14 smmsp
-rw-rw---- 1 squid mail 0 2007-09-24 15:15 squid
-rw-rw---- 1 sshd mail 0 2007-09-24 15:17 sshd
-rw-rw---- 1 tcpdump mail 0 2007-09-24 15:15 tcpdump
-rw-rw---- 1 torrent mail 0 2007-09-24 15:17 torrent
-rw-rw---- 1 vcsa mail 0 2007-09-24 15:14 vcsa
-rw-rw---- 1 webalizer mail 0 2007-09-24 15:15 webalizer
-rw-rw---- 1 xfs mail 0 2007-09-24 15:19 xfs
-rw-rw---- 1 zelma mail 0 2007-09-24 16:53 zelma
Note that the mail that's there for chris is mail I have put there
using my MUA, it's not been put there by sendmail.
--
Chris Green
