[KLUG Members] Re: postfix setup problem

members@kalamazoolinux.org members@kalamazoolinux.org
Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:04:38 -0400


On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 11:03:32AM -0400, Richard Harding was only escaped
   alone to tell thee:

> My new question is that after sending a message from root to the user
> and I su to the user and run the mail command, it says no mail for
> username. However the message is in the new directory.

Your mailer expects an mbox in /var/mail/$USER. Some of them, especially
mailx, do not expect a maildir under /var/mail, or don't handle maildir,
or don't do autodetection well.

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