Hi, Thanks a ton Suresh.
You know what I did(Please read on, I have some more queries) > From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [LIH] Re: Problems with mails > Do a mailq... then check permissions on wherever > your mail spool is located > (1777, ideally). I did mailq and saw 103 mails queued for delivery, that gave me a sigh of relief that my mails are not lost. Then I checked the /var/ spool/mqueue permissions, they were 755, and I changed it to 777. > so run "newaliases" I ran newaliases, but again same message /etc/mail/aliases not found. I went through man of newaliases and aliases and atleast understood what is the need of these files, but couldn't understand, why do I need it, so I decided to create a blank aliases and as root I did touch aliases and then run newaliases I got a warning that /var/mqueue is world readable, but did the job of creating /etc/mail/aliases.db Now I did sendmail -q and then as ajitabhpandey opened mutt and found my mails. But one thing I couldn't understand that: (1.) The /var/spool/mqueue is world accesible (777) isn't it a security/privacy threat? I poll the mail as a user, so what can I do to so that it does the job and is not 777(755 is ok) (2.) The purpose of aliases file in my case (3.) I checked /var/spool/mail and found that only the mailbox of one user i.e. ajitabhpandey is present, what if I want the mails of other users to be received on the system, will their system mailboxes be automatically created. Regards. Ajitabh Pandey __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
