Greetings

I have a most peculiar problem and am seeking advice.

I'm at a loss on this one.  I've googled around and searched for anyone 
else who might have had this problem, but I've found nothing.

I have two systems showing the same symptoms.  /usr/bin/mail, part of 
the Debian mailutils package, can't send mail from the root user if 
Courier MTA is the local MTA.  A nearly identical system using exim has 
no problem.

Sending mail from other users on these systems works perfectly.  This is 
also not a problem of the MTA accepting inbound mail to the root user, 
as I successfully receive those mails.

I suspect a compatibility problem between mailutils and courier's 
sendmail, but I'm not sure about it, or why this is only affecting the 
root user.



If I do, as the root user, the following single-line command;

echo "I like cheese." | /usr/bin/mail -s "test root mail" -t 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Then nothing happens -- the mail disappears into nothingness, with the 
exception of the following syslog message (sorrows
  is the local hostname);

Jun 17 23:24:44 sorrows 250 Ok.

The same command as any other user works just fine.

--

Extra info;

This is a Debian GNU/Linux host having the problems.
The courier-mta package is 0.53.3-6
The mailutils package is 1:1.1+dfsg1-3.1



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