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From: geoff@collyer.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] local mail question
Date: Sun,  1 Aug 2004 00:45:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bc66c23dafac46aa99f01adc8f6eecdb@collyer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.58.0407311604490.9843@malasada.lava.net>

Each user who wants to receive mail needs to run 'mail -c'.  This
could be done in /sys/lib/newuser, though it isn't in the stock one.

I suspect that it's a rewrite problem.  Try

	mail '-dd#' newsham

and see if the problem becomes obvious.  `Invalid address' usually
means that upas fell off the end of your rewrite file without a match.
You ought to have a line like this to deliver local mail:

	# local mail
	local!([^!]+)		>> /mail/box/\1/mbox

Order matters, so be careful.  If in doubt, look at
/mail/lib/rewrite.* as examples.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-01  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-28  2:10 [9fans] (no subject) YAMANASHI Takeshi
2004-07-29 20:51 ` [9fans] usb keychain boot? Tim Newsham
2004-07-29 22:13   ` Tim Newsham
2004-07-30  5:11     ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-08-01  2:11       ` [9fans] local mail question Tim Newsham
2004-08-01  2:59         ` [9fans] ndb question Tim Newsham
2004-08-02  8:53           ` Charles Forsyth
2004-08-01  7:45         ` geoff [this message]

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