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Re: [bug-mailutils] Re: help required: how to get mailutils-comsatd biff


From: Sergey Poznyakoff
Subject: Re: [bug-mailutils] Re: help required: how to get mailutils-comsatd biff notification
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:52:17 +0300

> Few more thing wanted to add to last post

So, let's begin with this one:

>    comsatd  do not accept --test
> 
> and 
>    mailutils-config --info sysconfdir 
> 
> return error.
> 
>    mailutils-config --info
>       VERSION=1.2

Version 1.2 is more than two years old by now. I strongly recommend
to upgrade to the recent Mailutils version (which is 2.1, released
on 10 Sep 2009).

> This I do not have correct idea, what MDA should be here,
> So I have posted my postfix main.cf file which has
> 
> biff = yes

OK.

> and I configured postfix as null machine can not receive mails.
> 
> and I am using offlinemap for syning mail from gmail,its offlinemaprc
> I am pasting here

I don't know what offlinemap is and what is has to do with biff notification.

> > 3. Make sure your .biffrc matches [2] and has correct permissions.
> 
> attaching my .biffrc

It is OK and works fine on my box.

> its permission is
> 600

Good.

> I do not have biff as it conflict with mailutils-comsats in Ubuntu

Huh? What to you mean?

> so using six line biff script.

It's OK.

> But still not able to get anything working.

Verify the following:

1. Is comsat listening on its port?
Run
  netstat -an|grep :512
and verify its output. It should display something similar to

udp        0      0 127.0.0.1:512             0.0.0.0:*

2. Is the delivery agent able to reach the IP address comsat listens
on?
The IP address in question is shown in the output from [1].

3. Does your tty have the `execute' bit on?
Run
  ls -l `tty`
and verify its output.

If the answer on all three questions above is `yes', send some mail
to your account and watch if the notification message appears on the
console. If it does not, than your MDA does not send notifications at
all.

Regards,
Sergey




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