Lawson,
I checked /etc/passwd and user Joanne has her home directory set correctly
as /home/Joanne. The problem seems to be the capitalization of the first
letter of the user name.
mail works fine for root and I also tested it with a new user that didn't
have the first letter capitalized. It worked fine.
Now I suppose I'll have to change all my user names if I want to use mail.
Thanks for your help,
Paul
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 3:34 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: mail problem
Paul,
Now I have looked round a bit, and found that mailx is Mail, as is
mail, yes.
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Paul Charsley wrote:
> I am trying to set up local mail only on my Caldera Linux 1.3. I am
trying
> to use the mailx program but when I try to send mail to myself or
anyone
> else I get the messages:
>
> username........user unknown
mailx needs the userid of the recipient as its argument. Maybe the
attached script will show you.
> no/such/directory/dead.letter...... cannot open: No such file or
directory
>
Look in /etc/passwd at the line for the user who is sending mail, and
you will probably see that his home directory (6th field, fields are
separated by colon:) is no/such/directory, so mailx has nowhere to put
the dead.letter. Fix /etc/passwd so he has a valid home directory.
Usually, it is /home/<userid>; if it doesn't exist, you can make one
with mkdir.
> Can anyone help?
>
> Paul
>
Script started on Sun Sep 26 23:23:29 1999
witsend:~$ mailx -s oops foo
oops
.
EOT
witsend:~$ foo... User unknown
/home/whit/dead.letter... Saved message in /home/whit/dead.letter
mailx -s Hi whit
High their!
.
EOT
witsend:~$ exit
exit
Script done on Sun Sep 26 23:25:14 1999
Lawson
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