Owner and permissions of /var/mail/me

[Carthik Sharma]

Mystery solved :

Postfix had died a mystery death and so a reboot fixed everything. I have 
around 23 "test" mails in /var/mail/carthik!!!

I had deleted /var/mail/carthik before rebooting.

thanks for the help, everyone :)

Carthik.

On 9/1/05, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> 
> Carthik Sharma wrote:
> 
> > On 9/1/05, Michael R Head <burner at suppressingfire.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 23:26 +1000, Russell Cook wrote:
> >> > What is the default mail package for dealing with internal system
> >> > messages?
> >> > When I check for mail I get the following:
> >>
> >> burner at phoenix:~$ dpkg -S `which mail`
> >> mailx: /usr/bin/mail
> >
> >
> > I guess this "mail" is the program used to read the mail in
> > /var/mail/username - i was talking about the agent used to send mail
> > outside my box.
> 
> No, and no :-) "mail" is a program used for sending mail - typically
> locally, but it depends on the setup of your MTA, too.
> >
> > Also, answers as to how to recreate /var/mail/carthik would be welcome 
> :)
> 
> Clearly you _have_ created /var/mail/carthik - and if you've followed
> directions, it's set up correctly. However, it's up to your MDA to
> actually put the mail in there. And to put it in the correct format. I'm
> guessing you have it configured to go somewhere else. Exim used to like to
> use /home/carthik/Maildir (for maildir - It was something else for mbox).
> --
> derek
> 
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