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Date:      Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:56:36 -0500 (CDT)
From:      <legg@iastate.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   pine 4.33 related (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.OSF.3.95.1011015215145.22564B-100000@isua4.iastate.edu>

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UPDATE:

I got a 'Mail delivery subsystem' error mail from the machine in which I
tried to send the test e-mail message from.  I am not yet proficient at
decoding these files.  I modified this document accodingly and attached a
link to this file.  Corrected a typo while I was at it.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: legg@iastate.edu
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: ports/pine 4.33 related


I installed pine 4.33 to act as an e-mail client for my box.  

(FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE)

First I will offer some background information that might be helpful to  
the problem.

BACKGROUND:

On first operation, it complained that /var/mail had vulnerable
permissions and recommended them to be set to 1770, so I chmod'ed the
permissions of that directory accordingly.  Error message was never seen
again. 

PINE sends mail just fine, from any user including root.

THE PROBLEM:

E-mails are not being received, but instead a few hours later, I get a
Mail Delivery Subsystem (via the machine I tried to send from) informing
me of all my worldly sins. When logging on as root, it says "You have new
mail", but no messages are displayed. 

I have links to 5 text files that might be used to give insight to this   
problem 


directory.txt - 'ls -alR' executed from /root/
pinerc.txt    - .pinerc from the root account
inbox.txt     - copy of the inbox file from /root/mail/inbox
messages.txt  - possibly relevant exerpts from /var/log/messages
maildev.txt   - e-mail from Mail Deliv. Subs. about not being able to send

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~legg/freebsd/directory.txt
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~legg/freebsd/pinerc.txt
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~legg/freebsd/inbox.txt
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~legg/freebsd/messages.txt
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~legg/freebsd/maildev.txt


Timothy D Legg
legg@iastate.edu





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