Owner and permissions of /var/mail/me

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:34:29AM -0400, Carthik Sharma wrote:
> This didn't fix it : echo test | mail carthik as well as sending a mail to
> "carthik" from mutt  did not show the mail in  the newly created (by me) /var/
> mail/carthik...

I wouldn't trust the method that requires you to touch
/var/mail/carthik, then set the permissions on your own; if
possible, you should let the system create the file for you
and set the permissions. So I'd start over: delete
/var/mail/carthik, then again do

echo test |mail carthik

and see what happens. There's no reason why it shouldn't go
through.

The logfiles that you're looking for, I believe, are in
/var/log/mail.log. When I just now did the 'echo test'
trick, the following lines showed up in my log:

Sep  1 11:38:35 TheloniousMonk postfix/pickup[12036]: 9B206123A0C: uid=1000 from=<slaniel>
Sep  1 11:38:35 TheloniousMonk postfix/cleanup[12237]: 9B206123A0C: message-id=<20050901153835.9B206123A0C at TheloniousMonk.laniels.org>
Sep  1 11:38:35 TheloniousMonk postfix/qmgr[7740]: 9B206123A0C: from=<slaniel at TheloniousMonk.laniels.org>, size=348, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Sep  1 11:38:35 TheloniousMonk postfix/local[12238]: 9B206123A0C: to=<slaniel at TheloniousMonk.laniels.org>, orig_to=<slaniel>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent (delivered to command: procmail -a "$EXTENSION")
Sep  1 11:38:35 TheloniousMonk postfix/qmgr[7740]: 9B206123A0C: removed

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