Sendmail user mail file missing - Again

[David Niemi]

On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 12:06 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
> David Niemi wrote:
> >>>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?
> >>
> > 
> > There is no .procmailrc file in the home directory (/home/daven) of the
> > user, nor is there in the FC3 backup of the user folder.  Once the user
> > was created and I was finally able to log in I only copied over the user
> > files and the .evolution and the .mozilla directories. I was leary of
> > copying anything else forward unless I found I needed it.
> 
> Run this command:
> 
> $ Mail -s "test message" root < /etc/fedora-release
> 
> Wait a few seconds, then look at the end of /var/log/maillog to see what 
> happened to the message.

Aug  8 07:14:37 Jenny sendmail[31172]: j78BEbAq031172: from=daven,
size=63, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<200508081114.j78BEbAq031172 at Jenny.daveshome>,
relay=daven at localhost
Aug  8 07:14:38 Jenny sendmail[31173]: j78BEb04031173:
from=<daven at Jenny.daveshome>, size=356, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<200508081114.j78BEbAq031172 at Jenny.daveshome>, proto=ESMTP,
daemon=MTA, relay=Jenny.daveshome [127.0.0.1]
Aug  8 07:14:38 Jenny sendmail[31172]: j78BEbAq031172: to=root,
ctladdr=daven (500/500), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay,
pri=30063, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
(j78BEb04031173 Message accepted for delivery)
Aug  8 07:14:38 Jenny sendmail[31174]: j78BEb04031173:
to=<root at Jenny.daveshome>, ctladdr=<daven at Jenny.daveshome> (500/500),
delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30575, dsn=2.0.0,
stat=Sent

So it looks like the message isn't being forwarded.  I su'd and sent a
message the same way to daven and it was received.  I then went to /etc,
checked the aliases file and the last line has the person to receive
root's e-mail as daven, and reran newaliases, and got the expected
output.  as daven I tried the mail again and it wasn't received.