Re: Local mail delivery gone
On Sun Apr 21, 2002 at 09:23:25PM -0700, Steve Cooper wrote: > Hello, > > I have a working stand-alone Debian Unstable system with a DSL > internet connection. It happily receives email from my ISP's POP > server using getmail. I have no problem sending mail with postfix, > configured for a smarthost. What doesn't work, and hasn't for a while > is local mail delivery. > > Mail I send to myself, or that gets automatically sent by installation > scripts, goes into the "bit bucket". Nothing ever gets appended to > /var/spool/mail/. Note that I have getmail dumping emails right > into my user directory hierarchy. So it doesn't touch > /var/spool/mail/. > > I have studied the postix FAQ. I assume postfix can be configured for > both local and smarthost delivery, or am I mistaken? > > I'd appreciate any hints. It works for me but I'm no expert. Do you have /usr/bin/mail? maybe scripts are trying to use that. On my box /usr/bin/mail is a link to /usr/sbin/sendmail (postfix's), but I suspect I may possibly have made that link myself. Not sure. -- -CraigW "You stole fizzy lifting drinks! You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and sterilized, so you get nothing! You lose! Good day sir!" -Willy Wonka -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Local mail delivery gone
>From craigw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 10:04:51PM -0700: > On Sun Apr 21, 2002 at 09:23:25PM -0700, Steve Cooper wrote: > > I have a working stand-alone Debian Unstable system with a DSL > > internet connection. It happily receives email from my ISP's POP > > server using getmail. I have no problem sending mail with postfix, > > configured for a smarthost. What doesn't work, and hasn't for a while > > is local mail delivery. [snip] > > It works for me but I'm no expert. > Do you have /usr/bin/mail? maybe scripts are trying to use that. > On my box /usr/bin/mail is a link to /usr/sbin/sendmail (postfix's), but > I suspect I may possibly have made that link myself. Not sure. ---end quoted text--- /usr/bin/mail is fine. Must be part of the standard install for postfix. Thanks, Steve -- \_O< \_O< \_O< ~~~ Steve Cooper Redmond, WA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Local mail delivery gone
Hello, take a look at /etc/postfix/main.cf There has to be a line looking like mydestination = (or similar) Here you have to enter all local mail destinations (the parts right of the @sign), for example: mydestination = dka-edv.de tibook.dka-edv.de Then local delivery should work - everything which goes to another destination is delivered over the host configured with relayhost = Hope it helps, Daniel On Montag, April 22, 2002, at 07:49 Uhr, Steve Cooper wrote: From craigw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 10:04:51PM -0700: On Sun Apr 21, 2002 at 09:23:25PM -0700, Steve Cooper wrote: I have a working stand-alone Debian Unstable system with a DSL internet connection. It happily receives email from my ISP's POP server using getmail. I have no problem sending mail with postfix, configured for a smarthost. What doesn't work, and hasn't for a while is local mail delivery. [snip] It works for me but I'm no expert. Do you have /usr/bin/mail? maybe scripts are trying to use that. On my box /usr/bin/mail is a link to /usr/sbin/sendmail (postfix's), but I suspect I may possibly have made that link myself. Not sure. ---end quoted text--- /usr/bin/mail is fine. Must be part of the standard install for postfix. Thanks, Steve -- \_O< \_O< \_O< ~~~ Steve Cooper Redmond, WA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Quarkness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
