Sendmail user mail file missing - Again

[Paul Howarth]

David Niemi wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 10:15 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:
> 
>>On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 10:48 -0400, David Niemi wrote:
>>
>>>On my system which had the problems with the smp kernels after the
>>>installation, when I was finally able to go through the first time boot
>>>screens I created the user "daven", no upper case this time.  At first I
>>>had tried to keep the /home partition, but end up formating it anyway.
>>>
>>>Everything else was created fine except for the file in /var/spool/mail.
>>>I'd like to use this account to receive the messages for root from the
>>>different cron jobs through aliases and running "newaliases".
>>>
>>>I haven't made any changes to the files in /etc/mail or others.
>>>
>>>Other than backing up, removing the user, and copying the files back is
>>>there a way to get the sendmail file?
>>>
>>
>>I don't have any problems with local mail coming to my user.
>>
>>There are 3 steps involved.
>>
>>1.  The aliases file must be edited to tell mail to transfer mail for
>>root to your user.  It must have a line such as:
>>      root:           user
>>
>>2.  Then the command "newaliases" must be run to put that in the
>>database actually used.
>>
>>3.  The old mail file for root should be transferred to your user. (This
>>is not necessary but is nice so all of root's mail has been gotten.)
>>  What I do is make sure my users mail file is empty (has size = 0 ),
>>then in the /var/spool/mail directory I first look at the ownership of
>>the users mail file (it should be owner "user" group "mail").  I then do
>>a "mv root user" followed by a "chown user:mail user"
> 
> 
> Thanks for the tips, I tried it an the user still doesn't receive the
> messages from the cron jobs via aliases.  Yes, I did verify that the
> name to receive the root email is correct and I did run newaliases.
> 
> I created another user and for this user the mail file was automatically
> created when the user was created.
> 
> Any other ideas?

Is there a .procmailrc file in the home directory of the "problem" user? 
If so, what does it contain?

Paul.