I would try creating another user, and see if this problem is persistent. Maybe you just made a mistake creating your new user. Joel
On Sun, Apr 28, 2002 at 06:07:12PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
