Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 23:14:06 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Jim Barker <jbarker1842@my-dejanews.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail losing mail Message-ID: <19980924231406.A21009@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <POPLBHENMJPPBAAA@my-dejanews.com> References: <POPLBHENMJPPBAAA@my-dejanews.com>
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Jim Barker wrote: > Do I have to manually create the subdirectories under > /var/mail, and if so what permission's, owner's, group's, > etc. No, they are not directory. Mailboxes in /var/mail are a single file. I don't think creating them would help, sendmail should create them automatically if they do not exist. It can't hurt though, I suppose. Create an empty file, owner jimbark, group whatever jimbark's group is (most likely jimbark as well), mode 600. > How do I get the mail from the queue to the respective > user's. sendmail -q will attempt to deliver all mail in the queue, you may have to check maillog for any errors. -- Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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