brook@ut-emx.UUCP (Brook Milligan) (02/24/90)
I am configuring sendmail on a DS3100 (Ultrix v3.1/UWS v2.1). I can
send mail to another host on the same local network, but cannot
receive mail from that same host nor can I send mail from the DS3100
to myself (or another login) on the DS3100. When I do so I get the
following message from invoking `mail -v brook <letter'
brook... Connecting to .local...
mail: cannot append to /usr/spool/mail/brook/brook
Mail saved in dead.letter
brook... unknown mailer error 1
Saving message in /usr/users/brook/dead.letter
/usr/users/brook/dead.letter... Sent
To test the address resolution of this case I invoked
`/usr/lib/sendmail -bt' and received the following result:
ADDRESS TEST MODE
Enter <ruleset> <address>
> * brook
rewrite: ruleset 3 input: "brook"
rewrite: ruleset 8 input: "brook"
rewrite: ruleset 8 returns: "brook"
rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: "brook"
rewrite: ruleset 0 input: "brook"
rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: "^V" "local" "^X" "brook"
The only changes I have made to /usr/lib/sendmail.cf are
DDbotany.utexas.edu
FS/etc/hosts %*[0-9.]%s
The /etc/hosts file is
#
# Host Database
#
127.0.0.1 localhost
128.83.173.1 trillium.botany.utexas.edu trillium
128.83.173.2 mimulus.botany.utexas.edu mimulus
Is there something else I need to configure? Why can sendmail not
connect to `local'?
Thanks for your help.
--
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Brook G. Milligan Internet: brook@emx.utexas.edu
Department of Botany Bitnet: bohk313@utaivc
University of Texas at Austin UUCP: ...!ut-emx!brook
Austin, Texas 78713 U.S.A. (512) 471-3530
====================================================================stefan@wheaton.UUCP (Stefan Brandle ) (02/27/90)
In article <24974@ut-emx.UUCP> brook@ut-emx.UUCP (Brook Milligan) writes: >following message from invoking `mail -v brook <letter' > >brook... Connecting to .local... >mail: cannot append to /usr/spool/mail/brook/brook Wierd! You might start out by doing something like ls -ld /usr/spool/mail/brook to see whether something strange has happened there. It should look like: -rw------- 1 brook 105992 Feb 26 21:27 /usr/spool/mail/brook It should not be a directory, should be owned by you, and you should have read/write permission. If it doesn't meet these criteria, try fixing it and try again. The more interesting question is why mail is trying to deliver the mail to /usr/spool/mail/brook/brook. The `brook/brook' part is not normal. I'm afraid that one of the experts out there will have to help you with that since that's getting far off the beaten path. Some change to sendmail may account for what you see. -stefan -- ---------------------------------------------- MA Bell: (708) 260-5019 --------- Stefan Brandle UUCP: ...!{obdient,uunet!tellab5}!wheaton!stefan Wheaton College or stefan@wheaton.UUCP Wheaton, IL 60187 "But I never claimed to be sane!"
avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) (02/27/90)
Actually, there is no problem with /usr/spool/mail/brook/brook as long as brook exists and brook/brook exists and brooks/brooks is writeable by user brooks. fred
grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) (02/28/90)
In article <2934@decuac.DEC.COM> avolio@decuac.dec.com writes: > Actually, there is no problem with /usr/spool/mail/brook/brook as long as > brook exists and brook/brook exists and brooks/brooks is writeable by > user brooks. Are you sure Fred? I don't sound right to me. By default /bin/mail is going to try to append mail to /usr/spool/mail/user. There's some kind of code in the 4.3 binmail source to handle the /u/s/m/user/user case, but it's ifdef'ed out. Perhaps some other mail agent likes to work this way and the person with the problem lost that magic mail agent... -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing: domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com Commodore, Engineering Department phone: 215-431-9349 (only by moonlite)