On Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:05:48 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 20:22:12 +0000, Felix Karpfen wrote: >> Since switching to Debian Etch, I no longer get messages (from cron and >> logcheck) delivered to my user-mailbox. Exim 4 delivers them to the >> mail-queue in /var/spool/exim4/input; when the queue is emptied, they >> appear to end up in /dev/null. > >The Lenny/Sid version of exim4 has a debconf dialog > question that lets you *choose between "mbox format in /var/mail"* and > "Maildir format in home directory".
Etch offers the same choice and this may have been one of my problems. After switching to mbox format, I can receive "echo "just a test..." | mail -s "test-local" [EMAIL PROTECTED]" when run from a "user" terminal. ziltch for "echo "just a test..." | mail -s "test-local 2" $USER" and ziltch if either command is run as "root". In case it is relevant: $ echo $USER felixk and the only entry in /etc/mailname is the name of the localhost (carrot.cabbage.patch). Messages from logcheck continue to be delivered to /var/spool/exim4/input. The following logcheck header may reveal something: | 1JX43I-00015E-M3-H | logcheck 111 115 | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | 1204763620 0 | -ident logcheck | -received_protocol local | -body_linecount 266 | -auth_id logcheck | -auth_sender [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -allow_unqualified_recipient | -allow_unqualified_sender | -local | XX | 1 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | 205P Received: from logcheck by carrot.cabbage.patch with local (Exim 4.63) | (envelope-from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) | id 1JX43I-00015E-M3 | for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:33:40 +1100 | 031T To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 071 Subject: Reboot: carrot.cabbage.patch 2008-03-06 11:33 Security Events | 053I Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | 061F From: logcheck system account <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | 038 Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:33:40 +1100 It is worth flagging that it might now be a "feature" of logcheck to send its notifications *only* to another computer. While the posting problems on my box barely warrant the attention that they have received, I supply these further details in the hope that my experiences may identify an "exim.config" problem/bug. Felix Karpfen -- Felix Karpfen Public Key 72FDF9DF (DH/DSA) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
