Re: [bug-mailutils] Mail, sends to dead.letter once in a while, to black hole mostly

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Gene Heskett <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> It /almost/ worked last nite.  But the email was sent to 
> /var/spool/mail/amanda, with 0600 perms.

These are correct permissions for any mailbox.

> It should have been sent to 
> /var/spool/mail/gene.  I had to reset perms to 0666 before kmail, running 
> as me, could read it.

Oh, you shouldn't have done so.  Of course it couldn't, because
mailboxes have 0600 permissions set expressly for that reason: to
prevent users from peeking into each others' mailboxes :)

> Where would I look to see where that was getting miss-directed?

First of all, examine your sendmail logs.  There you will find exact
description of how your mail was delivered.  Again, if you have any
difficulties interpreting them, you can post the related fragments to
the list.

Regards,
Sergey