root email account is suddenly stopped to receive any email

Michael Leung michaelchikit at gmail.com
Mon Feb 28 03:01:48 UTC 2005


I have tried to login as other user , I still cannot send email to
root. But I have tired login as root send to toher user, that is
working. So strange


On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:09:44 -0500, Ian P. Thomas <ipt at scraemon.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 11:12 +1000, Michael Leung wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >    I am new to Fedora. I don't know what happen. Just my root email
> > cannot get any email from cron job and logwatch.
> > I don't know why. Would you like to give me some direction? what kind
> > of log I can read to find out the problem.
> >
> > yours,
> > Michael
> 
> If you are logged in as a regular user and you e-mail root, does root
> get the e-mail?
> 
> If that isn't the case, as root, read through /var/log/maillog and
> search for entries containing 'root'.  This should show any messages
> related to mail sent to root.
> 
> 
> Ian
>




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