I looked a little farther, and solved my own problem. I had created a user with an initial capital letter. Even though that's what was in /etc/passwd et.al., the mail system refuses to believe usernames can be capitalized. Sigh. I suppose I shoulda known that.
++ kevin On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 11:25:23PM +0000, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I've not done anything to my mail system in so long I've probably > forgotten something really goofy, but here's my problem. > > I'm running sendmail (because it runs out of the box and 'till > now never gave me a spec of trouble). I have myself and some > mailing lists here, all of which set up easily. > > I just created a new user, but when I try to send mail to that > user, my mail client (mutt) reports failure because of an unknown > user. I can log in as the user, but I get the same symptoms > sending mail to myself as that user. The user has an empty > mail spool file, with the same sorts of permissions as my normal > login. > > All other mail things are working fine. The mail logs show the > error, but don't seem to say why I'm having this problem. > > Any clues? -- Kevin O'Gorman (805) 650-6274 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Permanent e-mail forwarder: mailto:Kevin.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED] At school: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~kogorman/index.html Web: http://kosmanor.com/~kevin/index.html "Life is short; eat dessert first!" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
