Re: Exim4 - local mail deliveries
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" $USER@localhost"
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
| <logcheck@carrot.cabbagepatch>
| 1204763620 0
| -ident logcheck
| -received_protocol local
| -body_linecount 266
| -auth_id logcheck
| -auth_sender logcheck@carrot.cabbagepatch
| -allow_unqualified_recipient
| -allow_unqualified_sender
| -local
| XX
| 1
| felixk@carrot.cabbagepatch
|
| 205P Received: from logcheck by carrot.cabbage.patch with local (Exim 4.63)
| (envelope-from <logcheck@carrot.cabbagepatch>)
| id 1JX43I-00015E-M3
| for felixk@carrot.cabbagepatch; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:33:40 +1100
| 031T To: felixk@carrot.cabbagepatch
| 071 Subject: Reboot: carrot.cabbage.patch 2008-03-06 11:33 Security Events
| 053I Message-Id: <E1JX43I-00015E-M3@carrot.cabbage.patch>
| 061F From: logcheck system account <logcheck@carrot.cabbagepatch>
| 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
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Felix Karpfen
Public Key 72FDF9DF (DH/DSA)
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