Hi, I'm trying to help a friend (not on the list) who just installed Mandrake 8.1 and haven't succeeded in solving this. It's is probably a stupid question, but I've looked at all the relevant man pages and I'm obviously missing something.
Root doesn't get any mail. Root can send mail and it arrives. Users can send mail to each other and it all arrives. Users can send mail to root but even though there is no error messge, the mail doesn't arrive. Even messages sent by CRON jobs don't arrive. I discovered that all the **missing** mail was in /var/spool/mail/nobody. I renamed that to /var/spool/mail/root and both **mail** and **pine** could read the mail. But the next mail sent agin went to **nobody**. I found an article about this at http://www.ssc.com/pipermail/lj-announce/2001-March/000143.html and the solution was to add an alias for nobody so root would get this mail, but I checked and the alias already exists. Aside from that, this seems to be a workaround to what is probably a simple missing parameter or something stupid that I've missed. Can anyone help on this? BTW - In case it wasn't clear from the above, the problem is only with local mail on the machine. Internet e-mail works fine. TIA //------------------------- Shlomo Solomon E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://come.to/shlomo.solomon Date: 02-Feb-2002 Time: 19:58:10 Message sent by XFMail on a LINUX Mandrake 8.1 machine //------------------------- ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
