Hi, Check your aliases file. Root is probably an alias to nobody. Mandrake comes with postfix by default (I think), so the aliases file is usually /etc/postfix/aliases.
Sagi ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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]
