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Re: Delivery to bin

2000-07-27 22:25:53

     Thank you for responding.  The /etc/aliases is empty (shame on me)
and the /etc/passwd shows /root as home directory for too.

     Mail delivers properly to root when there is no procmail
statement in the .forward file.

     Homer

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On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, SoloCDM wrote:

Homer Wilson Smith wrote:

    Running Linux 2.0.38 and procmail 3.13.1

    Mail to root is delivered to bin.

    .forward = "|exec /usr/bin/procmail"  procmail setuid to root

    No .procmailrc file, or /etc/procmailrc.

    Mail sent to root(_at_)romance(_dot_)lightlink(_dot_)com gets delivered 
to

    /var/spool/mail/bin

    Only happens for root, other accounts work properly.

    Why?  Pointers to RTFM welcome.

Your MTA (Sendmail) would be responsible in this case.  Look into
/etc/mail/aliases or /etc/aliases.  I've changed my defaults, so
your's may be different, but the path is at least one or the other. 
Also, it may be in /etc/passwd or /etc/group.  Somewhere you changed
root's default name.

HTH

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Signed,
SoloCDM




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