Kurt Telep on Sun, 25 Jul 1999 22:50:29 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] Sending mail inside of same box


It happens when I mail to a user from inside the box, or outside of the box.
I created a POP only user in
linuxconf, and I can send and recieve fine for that user.  That's why I think it's
a configuration problem on
a per user basis.

Later-
Kurt Telep

> 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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