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Re: anybody familiar with email setup in Debian?



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H.S. wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I recently installed Debian Etch on my computer. After the installation,
> I noticed that email (local) was not working at all. I had these in my
> /var/mail
> $> ls -l /var/mail
> total 0
> ---------- 1 root mail 0 2006-06-05 14:25 Debian-exim
> ---------- 1 root mail 0 2006-06-05 14:29 gdm
> ---------- 1 root mail 0 2006-06-05 14:26 hal
> ---------- 1 root mail 0 2006-06-05 14:25 identd
> ---------- 1 root mail 0 2006-06-05 14:25 messagebus
> ---------- 1 root mail 0 2006-06-05 14:31 user1
> ---------- 1 root mail 0 2006-06-05 16:32 sshd
> ---------- 1 root mail 0 2006-06-05 14:25 statd
> 
> I had to manually change the permissions of user1 to -rw-rw---- to get
> mail working. So far so good.

Did you add yourself to the mail group?

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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