[svlug] $MAIL and location of new mail?

Robert L. Harris Robert.L.Harris at rnd-consulting.com
Tue Jun 6 06:11:43 PDT 2000


This is all the output:

{0}:wally:/root>/usr/sbin/sendmail -bv -d9 nomad
getauthinfo: root at localhost
nomad... deliverable: mailer local, user nomad


The other user is identicle, except the user name.

Robert


Thus spake Tin Le (tin at le.org):

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> It's been a while since I used sendmail, I uses postfix now.  But here is
> one of the things I do to debug sendmail.
> 
> Run this sendmail command and send us the output.
> 
> $ /usr/sbin/sendmail -bv -d9 user1
> $ /usr/sbin/sendmail -bv -d9 user2
> 
> It will likely generate a lot of output so be ready to redirect it into a
> file.
> 
> Tin Le
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> http://tin.le.org
> Internet Security and Firewall Consulting
> Tin Le - tin at le.org
> 
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> > > > 
> > > >   I've looked to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf and can't find anything that
> > > > defines this behavior.  If I wanted both to go to /var/spool/mail, or
> > > > to ~/Mailbox, what would I change?  I've tried stopping sendmail, chainging
> > > > $MAIL, and restarting sendmail.  This didn't change the behavior.
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