Hi, I'm using Red Hat 7.3 and I'm having the following problem:
Mails sent to system users don't go to their mail file
(/var/spool/mail/username)
When I send a mail to root (with sendmail or with mail, right from the
command line), the message goes to root's mail file (/var/spool/mail/root),
but when I send it to any other user, it stays in the mqueue and never
leaves it.
I've been told that the user's mail file should belong to the user and to
the "mail" group. I changed it for one user, but it didn't work either.
Procmail is installed:
# rpm -q procmail
procmail-3.22-5
Current file permissions are:
# ls -l /var/spool/mail
total 77
-rw-rw---- 1 claudio mail 0 may 27 10:47 claudio
-rw-rw---- 1 nfsnobod nfsnobod 0 may 2 14:55 nfsnobody
-rw-rw---- 1 pepe pepe 0 may 27 10:39 pepe
-rw------- 1 root root 76951 may 27 04:02 root
Finally, I looked at the /var/log/maillog file, and found an EX_TEMPFAIL
error:
May 27 10:47:04 localhost sendmail[16260]: g4RDl4n16260: from=root,
size=44, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=< <mailto:200205271347(_dot_)g4RDl4n16260(_at_)i>
200205271347(_dot_)g4RDl4n16260(_at_)i(_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_)>,
<mailto:relay=root(_at_)l> relay=root(_at_)l(_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_)
May 27 10:47:04 localhost sendmail[16263]: g4RDl4n16260: to=claudio,
ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local,
pri=30044, dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: local mailer
(/usr/bin/procmail) exited with EX_TEMPFAIL
But I really don't know what may be wrong... Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Claudio
Additional info:
These are the files in /var/spool/mqueue:
-rw------- 1 root root 20 may 24 15:47 dfg4OIlFY01765
-rw------- 1 root root 10 may 24 15:48 dfg4OImPc01777
-rw------- 1 root root 9 may 24 15:51 dfg4OIplh01880
-rw------- 1 root root 11 may 24 15:27 dfg4OIRSx00867
-rw------- 1 root root 12 may 24 15:28 dfg4OISTP00919
-rw------- 1 root root 9 may 24 15:29 dfg4OIT3000927
-rw------- 1 root root 9 may 24 16:01 dfg4OJ1na01916
-rw------- 1 root root 5 may 24 16:02 dfg4OJ2WH01924
-rw------- 1 root root 13 may 24 16:39 dfg4OJd6c02173
-rw------- 1 root claudio 10 may 24 16:40 dfg4OJeMl02246
-rw------- 1 root root 20 may 24 16:14 dfg4OJETA01983
-rw------- 1 root pepe 14 may 24 16:41 dfg4OJfD802345
-rw------- 1 root claudio 13 may 24 16:41 dfg4OJfod02375
-rw------- 1 root root 9 may 24 16:42 dfg4OJgqc02383
-rw------- 1 root root 1757 may 24 20:39 dfg4ONdPK02630
-rw------- 1 root root 1610 may 24 21:39 dfg4P0dPF02692
-rw------- 1 root root 1598 may 24 21:39 dfg4P0dPG02692
-rw------- 1 root root 1595 may 24 21:39 dfg4P0dPH02692
-rw------- 1 root root 12 may 27 10:47 dfg4RDl4n16260