Re: odd internal mail failure

2016-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
David Wright writes: > The obvious candidate is /etc/mailname which I don't see > any reference to your changing. /etc/mailname appears to be the culprit ... thanks.

Re: odd internal mail failure

2016-02-21 Thread David Wright
On Sun 21 Feb 2016 at 14:27:01 (-0500), Harry Putnam wrote: > On a recently installed jessie OS I've found an odd situation > happing with the internal mail. > > root is getting a message from root. At least that is what appears in > >From and To. > > However the message is showing up in users d

odd internal mail failure

2016-02-21 Thread Harry Putnam
On a recently installed jessie OS I've found an odd situation happing with the internal mail. root is getting a message from root. At least that is what appears in >From and To. However the message is showing up in users directory as a file named `$'. Here is the header: From r...@d.local.l