Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 19:51:55 -0700 From: "Jim Barker" <jbarker1842@my-dejanews.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Ben Smithurst" <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: sendmail losing mail Message-ID: <HCIBIECOACLBCAAA@my-dejanews.com>
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Ok, I executed sendmail -q and sure enough it created --all the mailboxes that had mail. Thank you. On Thu, 24 Sep 1998 23:14:06 Ben Smithurst wrote: >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) > -----== Sent via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/ Easy access to 50,000+ discussion forums To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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