>From strace
write(1, "!/var/spool/mail/belg4mit\n", 26) = 26
open("/var/spool/mail/belg4mit", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_NONBLOCK, 0600) = 5
write(1, "!/var/spool/mail/belg4mit.lock\n", 31) = 31
uname({sys="Linux", node="vm10.myvpshost.com", ...}) = 0
umask(022) = 077
open("/va
>You might try telling slocal to be verbose, in which case it might
>say what was going wrong, or alternatively run under a debugger and
>see why status is being set to -1...
This has been suggested before, but it's not the most end-user friendly route.
# slocal -debug
vec[0]: "default"
vec[1]: "-
Jerrad Pierce wrote:
>Strike that, reverse it. As long as -user *is not supplied*, presumably
>due to these lines of localmail:
>
>443 /* last resort - deliver to standard mail spool */
>444 #ifdef SLOCAL_MBOX
>445 return usr_file (fd, mbox, MBOX_FORMAT);
>446 #else
>447
>At least on my box, as long as you give slocal -user when it's invoked,
Strike that, reverse it. As long as -user *is not supplied*, presumably
due to these lines of localmail:
443 /* last resort - deliver to standard mail spool */
444 #ifdef SLOCAL_MBOX
445 return usr_file (f
After doing without notifications, and typing 'from' (aliased msgchk)
every 30 seconds, I finally decided to tackle this issue, and it turned
out to be *almost* pretty simple. At least on my box, as long as you
give slocal -user when it's invoked, any undelivered messages fall
through .maildelivery
