Sendmail user mail file missing - Again

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Aug 8 11:49:13 UTC 2005


David Niemi wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 12:06 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>David Niemi wrote:
>>
>>>>>Thanks for the tips, I tried it an the user still doesn't receive the
>>>>>messages from the cron jobs via aliases.  Yes, I did verify that the
>>>>>name to receive the root email is correct and I did run newaliases.
>>>>>
>>>>>I created another user and for this user the mail file was automatically
>>>>>created when the user was created.
>>>>>
>>>>>Any other ideas?
>>>>
>>>>Is there a .procmailrc file in the home directory of the "problem" user? 
>>>>If so, what does it contain?
>>>>
>>>
>>>There is no .procmailrc file in the home directory (/home/daven) of the
>>>user, nor is there in the FC3 backup of the user folder.  Once the user
>>>was created and I was finally able to log in I only copied over the user
>>>files and the .evolution and the .mozilla directories. I was leary of
>>>copying anything else forward unless I found I needed it.
>>
>>Run this command:
>>
>>$ Mail -s "test message" root < /etc/fedora-release
>>
>>Wait a few seconds, then look at the end of /var/log/maillog to see what 
>>happened to the message.
> 
> 
> Aug  8 07:14:37 Jenny sendmail[31172]: j78BEbAq031172: from=daven,
> size=63, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<200508081114.j78BEbAq031172 at Jenny.daveshome>,
> relay=daven at localhost
> Aug  8 07:14:38 Jenny sendmail[31173]: j78BEb04031173:
> from=<daven at Jenny.daveshome>, size=356, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<200508081114.j78BEbAq031172 at Jenny.daveshome>, proto=ESMTP,
> daemon=MTA, relay=Jenny.daveshome [127.0.0.1]
> Aug  8 07:14:38 Jenny sendmail[31172]: j78BEbAq031172: to=root,
> ctladdr=daven (500/500), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay,
> pri=30063, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
> (j78BEb04031173 Message accepted for delivery)
> Aug  8 07:14:38 Jenny sendmail[31174]: j78BEb04031173:
> to=<root at Jenny.daveshome>, ctladdr=<daven at Jenny.daveshome> (500/500),
> delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30575, dsn=2.0.0,
> stat=Sent
> 
> So it looks like the message isn't being forwarded.  I su'd and sent a
> message the same way to daven and it was received.  I then went to /etc,
> checked the aliases file and the last line has the person to receive
> root's e-mail as daven, and reran newaliases, and got the expected
> output.  as daven I tried the mail again and it wasn't received.

What's the output of:
# praliases | grep root | sort

There should be a line:

root:daven

if you've set up the alias properly.

If it's not there, what's the output of:
# grep daven /etc/aliases

Paul.




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