Why can't I send mail to root?
Using the "mail command, I can send a message to another user, in this
case, user "zig":
bob@sonic:~$ mail zig -s "crap"
this is crap
Cc: bob@sonic:~$ su zig
Password:
zig@sonic:/home/bob$ mail
Mail version 8.1.2 01/15/2001. Type ? for help.
"/var/mail/zig": 1 message 1 new
>N 1 bob@localhost.loc Sun May 4 13:59 13/428 crap
& 1
Message 1:
From bob@localhost.localdomain Sun May 4 13:59:19 2003
To: zig@localhost.localdomain
Subject: crap
Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 13:59:19 +0800 (CST)
From: bob@localhost.localdomain
this is crap
&
At EOF
& q
Saved 1 message in /home/zig/mbox
All well and good. But I cannot send mail to root, even though I get no
error message when I make the attempt:
bob@sonic:~$ mail root -s "crap"
this is crap
Cc: bob@sonic:~$ su -
Password:
root@sonic:~# mail
No mail for root
root@sonic:~#
Any ideas on why this is?
regards,
Robert
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