From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 24 16:16:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA09108 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 16:16:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA08938 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 16:16:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from ben by scientia.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 2.04 #1) id 0zMJeJ-0005XX-00; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 23:14:07 +0100 Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 23:14:06 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Jim Barker , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail losing mail Message-ID: <19980924231406.A21009@scientia.demon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/0.94.3i (FreeBSD 3.0-BETA i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Barker wrote: > Do I have to manually create the subdirectories under > /var/mail, and if so what permission's, owner's, group's, > etc. No, they are not directory. Mailboxes in /var/mail are a single file. I don't think creating them would help, sendmail should create them automatically if they do not exist. It can't hurt though, I suppose. Create an empty file, owner jimbark, group whatever jimbark's group is (most likely jimbark as well), mode 600. > How do I get the mail from the queue to the respective > user's. sendmail -q will attempt to deliver all mail in the queue, you may have to check maillog for any errors. -- Ben Smithurst : ben@scientia.demon.co.uk : http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ PGP: 0x99392F7D - 3D 89 87 42 CE CA 93 4C 68 32 0E D5 36 05 3D 16 http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/ben/pgp-key.html (or use keyservers) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message