Re: [Cooker] mail setup delivering to /dev/null?

[Axalon Bloodstone]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 07:50:31PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >something about postfix/sendmail
> 
> removed both
> installed postfix-19990601-8mdk from my last rsync
> 
> now i get in response to a mailq as root
> 
> mailq: warning: Mail system is down -- accessing queue directly
> 
> nothing appears in /var/spool/mail/
> 
> what would the ownership of /var/spool/mail/stephen be ?
> stephen.mail ?
> 
> copying root's mail in /var/spool/mail/root to 
> /var/spool/mail/stephen with above ownership
> gives me a new mail message in a stephen owned xterm
> 
> what puts mail into /var/spool/mail please ?
> 
> srp
> 
  
You need to start the server manualy (or reboot)

/etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix start 

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