Re: debian keeps mail where?

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

Britton wrote:
  >
  >I am finally getting mail set up right on my system after seeing the
  >article in LJ.  I found that my system did not have a file
  >
  >/var/spool/mail/myusername
  >
  >which said article says is the standard place where mail is kept?  Does
  >the user setup system not automaticly create this file, or am I using the
  >wrong one?

This file should be created automatically when mail is delivered. Some mail
frontend programs delete it after reading it, so it is unlikely that the
absence of this file is itself causing problems.

The directory /var/spool/mail should have these permissions/ownership:
drwxrwsrwt   2 mail     mail         1024 Jan 28 18:06 /var/spool/mail

or the mail delivery program may not be able to create the file when
it has mail to deliver.

If none of this helps, you should review all the logs to look for mail
handling errors.


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Oliver Elphick                                Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
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