local mail is broken

[David Stern <kotsya@localhost.debian.org>]

Hi,

Today I switched from sendmail to smail, editted the configuration 
files fairly thoroughly, restarted smail, and everything works for 
non-local mail.

I don't really know when I stopped receiving local mail, but I know I 
used to receive local mail when I was improperly configured as 
"satelite" (static ip) using sendmail.

Then I switched to from "satelite" to <send and receive via SMTP over 
TCP/IP>, I also configured my MFA (fetchmail), and I setup procmail to 
sort my mail into the $HOME/Mail/* folders.  This bypasses the 
traditional /var/spool/mail/* arrangement.

Currently local users are in /etc/aliases and smail complains that the 
all local users, root included, are unknown, and mail isn't delivered.  
Why would my local users be "unknown" to smail?  I've restarted smail.

What format are the /usr/doc/smail/guide/*.gz docs in?  The formatting 
is hard to read--lots of ".AE", ".NH", ".B", ".PP", .. at the beginning 
of lines.

Here's a (editted) snip from /var/log/smail:
----------------------------------------------
Received FROM:<+> HOST:localhost PROTOCOL:bsmtp PROGRAM:smail SIZE:1291
Failed TO:'&&exec DIRECTOR:dotforward ERROR:(ERR100) unknown user
Failed TO:-f-||exit DIRECTOR:dotforward ERROR:(ERR100) unknown user
Failed TFailed TO:/usr/bin/procmail DIRECTOR:dotforward TRANSPORT:file 
ERROR:(ERR133) transport file: failed to open output file: No such file
     or directory O:75 DIRECTOR:dotforward ERROR:(ERR100) unknown user
Failed TO:|IFS=' DIRECTOR:dotforward TRANSPORT:pipe ERROR:(ERR144) 
     transport pipe: child returned status EX_2 (2)
mail moved to /var/spool/smail/error/0xhjrI-0001y3C
----------------------------------------------

My $HOME/.forward looks like:
-------------------------------
|IFS=' '&&exec /usr/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #kotsya
-------------------------------

There's a lot going on here, and I can't figure it out.  If anyone 
understands this, please let me know.  (/usr/bin/procmail exists, btw)


-- 
David Stern

kotsya@u.washington.edu
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya/



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