Postfix, Mutt And No Root Mail?

[Leonard Chatagnier]

> On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:53:46AM -0700, Leonard
> Chatagnier wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:32:46 -0700 (PDT)
> > > Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 06:54:16AM -0400,
> Hal
> > > > > Burgiss wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > $ echo hello there |mail -s lchata 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Sorry brain fart #2, should be 
> > > > > 
> > > > > echo hello there | mail -s testing lchata 
> > > > > 
> > > > > (Need subject and recipient!!!) Sorry ....
> > > > > 
> > > > > -- 
> > > > > Hal
> > > > > 
> > > > Sorry Hal, still no joy. Ran the corrected
> command
> > > > line
> > > > and even the postaliases and postfix reload
> but
> > > mutt
> > > > gives this output:
> > > > Mutt:(no mailbox) and below this entry
> > > > var/spool/mail/lchata: No such file or
> directory
> > > > (errno = 2)
> > > > Googled for the /var/spool* stuff but got no
> hits.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > ls -l /var/spool/mail
> > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2007-03-26 20:31
> > > /var/spool/mail -> ../mail
> > > 
> > ls -l /var/spool/mail gives me the same but the
> actual
> > /var/spool/mail dir only shows the dir, lchata,
> with
> > nothing in it.
> > lchata at ubuntu:/var/spool/mail$ ls -l
> /var/spool/mail
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2007-06-16 16:52
> > /var/spool/mail -> ../mail
> > lchata at ubuntu:/var/spool/mail$
> > Link is not broken.
> > 
> > > Looks like /var/spool/mail  is a symlink to
> > > /var/mail  in Ubuntu . Does
> > > yours look like the above ?
> > > 
> > Exactly as said above.
> > 
> > > If not, try
> > > 
> > > sudo ln -s /var/mail  /var/spool/mail
> > > 
> > > Also check your /var/mail   :
> > > 
> > >  ls -ld /var/mail
> > > drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 2007-09-01 22:59
> > > /var/mail
> > > 
> > > It is set to setgid  "mail" group  ( notice the
> "s"
> > > in the output)
> > > 
> > Same here:
> > lchata at ubuntu:/var/spool/mail$ ls -ld /var/mail
> > drwxrwsr-x 3 root mail 4096 2007-07-06 12:07
> /var/mail
> > lchata at ubuntu:/var/spool/mail$
> > 
> > > That would be 
> > > sudo chown root:mail /var/mail 
> > > sudo chmod g+rws /var/mail
> > > 
> > > And of course "others" should have read and
> execute
> > > only, as above.
> > > 
> > > Peter
> > > 
> > seems I'm OK on this but does this relate to the
> Mutt
> > errors or is that another issue?
> > > 
> 
> /var/mail/ichata should be a *file* , not a
> directory.
> 
> Try removing it or moving it out of the way.
> 
> For example
> 
> sudo mv /var/mail/ichata /var/mail/ichata.bak
> 
> Then create a file:
> 
> sudo touch /var/mail/ichata
> sudo chown ichata:mail /var/mail/ichata
> sudo chmod 600 /var/mail/ichata
> 
> That should fix at least the problem with it being a
> directory - wwhich it shouldn't be.
> 
> Peter
Thanks Peter, now getting some joy but not all is
right, yet. I may have added those dirs earlier trying
to get mutt to read root mail based on some output,
sorry. I now have a mail file in /var/mail/lchata
which reflects Hal's echo command, shown below.
However, wondering about chmod 600 as ls -l
/var/mail/lchata shows:
-rw------- 1 lchata mail 489 2007-09-01 12:03
/var/mail/lchata
Shouldn't the mail group have all priviledges?  Also,
all /var/mail, /var/spool/mail have my username as a
dir, oops just checked again and now all are a file.
Guess the symlink took care of that.
The only problem I have now(I think) is that mutt
still has the same errors, doesn't show the echo mail
file or any root mail.  Perhaps, I should purge and
install mutt again.  The mutt errors are shown at the
top of this post.
Thanks for the progress as I was a little frustrated.

lchata at ubuntu:/var/spool/mail$ cat lchata
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Date: Sat,  1 Sep 2007 12:03:22 -0500 (CDT)
From: lchata at kubuntu-desktop (sole user)

hello there

lchata at ubuntu:/var/spool/mail$

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net