Fwd: Re: Postfix, Mutt And No Root Mail?

[Leonard Chatagnier]

My apology to the user group for this second sending
of an old post.  Somehow this showed up in my inbox
which startled me and I accidently hit the send
button.  Now I'm explaining the second sending.
FWIW, this has all been resolved except I still don't
get root mail.  Someone said that Ubuntu doesn't
support root mail.  I could still use a good
explanation on why no root mail.  Again, sorry for the
sending and still wondering how it got in my inbox.

Len
--- Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:42:11 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Postfix, Mutt And No Root Mail?
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> 
> 
> > > From: Hal Burgiss <hal at burgiss.net>
> > To: "Ubuntu user technical support,
> > 	not for general discussions"
> > <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 06:54:16 -0400
> > Subject: Re: Postfix, Mutt And No Root Mail?
> > 
> > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 10:41:10PM -0700, Leonard
> > Chatagnier wrote:
> > > > 
> > > Thanks Hal, for the clarification. sudo
> postalias
> > > /etc/aliases and sudo postfix reload all ran
> > without
> > > error this time but running mutt still shows
> that:
> > > Mutt (no Mailbox) and /var/mail/lchata is not a
> > > mailbox.  Something else must be wrong but what
> > could
> > > it be?
> > 
> > OK, here's what I would do next -- manually create
> > mail and look at
> > the logs. Do ... 
> > 
> > $ echo hello there |mail -s lchata 
> > 
> > You might have to install the mailx package. This
> > will generate a
> > mail. Then look at the mailbox. If no mail, look
> at
> > postfix's logs.
> > This is what mine look like when root mail is
> > redirected to my $USER
> > account:
> > 
> > Aug 31 06:37:30 honey postfix/cleanup[30345]:
> > A17B05C8249:message-id=<20070831103730.A17B05
> > C8249 at honey>
> > 
> > Aug 31 06:37:30 honey postfix/qmgr[26478]:
> > A17B05C8249: from=<halb at burgiss.net>, size=276, n
> > rcpt=1 (queue active) 
> > 
> > Aug 31 06:37:30 honey postfix/local[30347]:
> > A17B05C8249: to=<halb at burgiss.net>,
> orig_to=<root>,
> > relay=local, delay=0.06, delays=0.04/0.01/0/0.01,
> > dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to mailbox)
> > 
> > Aug 31 06:37:30 honey postfix/qmgr[26478]:
> > A17B05C8249: removed
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Hal
> >  
> > 
> Hello Hal,
> This is really getting frustrating.  Can't believe
> Postfix, Mutt or Root Mail is so messed up in
> Feisty.
> I elected to install mailutils ipo mailx, both have
> mail. I ran: 
> $ echo hello there |mail -s lchata
> and got this error:
> lchata at ubuntu:/var/log$ echo hello there |mail -s
> lchata
> Cannot parse address `hello there' (while expanding
> `hello there'): Format of RFC822 object is bad
> lchata at ubuntu:/var/log$
> Have no idea what it means.
> Late reply because have been googling all day on:
> no mailbox in ubuntu, mutt has no mailbox in
> ubuntu,etc. Also reading manuals which don't help.
> Also attempted to use maildirmake but man
> instructions
> are too much for me. I was able to compose an email
> to
> me @ubuntu and send it but it failed due to
> permission
> issues. In my first response to you I listed
> 
> 
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> 


Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net