From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 15 19:56:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isua4.iastate.edu (isua4.iastate.edu [129.186.1.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EC4837B403 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:56:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (legg@localhost) by isua4.iastate.edu (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA03957 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:56:36 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:56:36 -0500 (CDT) From: To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: pine 4.33 related (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG UPDATE: I got a 'Mail delivery subsystem' error mail from the machine in which I tried to send the test e-mail message from. I am not yet proficient at decoding these files. I modified this document accodingly and attached a link to this file. Corrected a typo while I was at it. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: legg@iastate.edu To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ports/pine 4.33 related I installed pine 4.33 to act as an e-mail client for my box. (FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE) First I will offer some background information that might be helpful to the problem. BACKGROUND: On first operation, it complained that /var/mail had vulnerable permissions and recommended them to be set to 1770, so I chmod'ed the permissions of that directory accordingly. Error message was never seen again. PINE sends mail just fine, from any user including root. THE PROBLEM: E-mails are not being received, but instead a few hours later, I get a Mail Delivery Subsystem (via the machine I tried to send from) informing me of all my worldly sins. When logging on as root, it says "You have new mail", but no messages are displayed. I have links to 5 text files that might be used to give insight to this problem directory.txt - 'ls -alR' executed from /root/ pinerc.txt - .pinerc from the root account inbox.txt - copy of the inbox file from /root/mail/inbox messages.txt - possibly relevant exerpts from /var/log/messages maildev.txt - e-mail from Mail Deliv. Subs. about not being able to send http://www.public.iastate.edu/~legg/freebsd/directory.txt http://www.public.iastate.edu/~legg/freebsd/pinerc.txt http://www.public.iastate.edu/~legg/freebsd/inbox.txt http://www.public.iastate.edu/~legg/freebsd/messages.txt http://www.public.iastate.edu/~legg/freebsd/maildev.txt Timothy D Legg legg@iastate.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message