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.
I think the mails should go to /var/mail/<your_username> for the default configuration. 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". > The following uncovered advice in "man update-exim4.conf: > > | dc_localdelivery > | > | name of the default transport for local mail delivery. Defaults to > | mail_spool if unset, use maildir_home for delivery to ~/Maildir/. This > | setting does not correspond to a Debconf question and needs to be set > | manually. > > is too cryptic for me. The setting is in the file /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf on my Sid box. As far as I understand the passage that you quoted above, the value of this variable does get taken into account whenever you run "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" but Etch has no explicit question about it in the debconf dialog, therefore you have to make sure that it is set correctly before you issue the dpkg-reconfigure command. So the question is, what is in your /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf? I have dc_localdelivery='mail_spool' which is the unchanged default setting and means that local mails to my user end up in /var/mail/florian (a flat file in mbox format that contains the concatenated messages). I can access these mails with every MUA that understands the mbox format. > I would welcome a fuller explanation of what it says, and guidance > on the correct entry in "update-exim4.conf" to post local mail to my > user-mailbox. In case it is relevant, my "postmaster" alias is "root" > and my "root" alias is the normal user. Check the settings in update-exim4.conf.conf, then run a simple test: echo "just a test..." | mail -s "test-local" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check the file in /var/mail with any mbox capable MUA or simply by looking at it with "less". If you cannot find the test message, check the queue for frozen messages by running "exim4 -bp" as root. If the test above works then you should also try echo "just a test..." | mail -s "test-local 2" $USER to see if there is a discrepancy between /etc/mailname and the hostnames that exim considers to be local deliveries. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
