David L. Martin on Sun, 25 Jul 1999 21:20:32 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] Sending mail inside of same box


On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Kurt Telep wrote:
> For some reason, only root can send and recieve mail on my box.  all my users
> can send mail, but no one can recieve.  WHen I tried to send mail to myself
> (not as root) I got "user unknown"  
> 
> all I have in /var/spool/mail was root, so I took the following steps.
> 
> touch username
> chown username.mail username
> chmod 660 username
> 
> And i still get user unknown.
> 
> Also, I'm running Redhat 6.0

Does this problem still occur when directing mail to user@localhost?

My thought is that you may have RELAY turned on.
root does not get relayed.

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