Re: [bug-mailutils] mail doesn't list messages

[Αναστασίου Γεώργιος]

Hello again,
Can someone please help with that?

The version i am running is:

mailutils-config --info
VERSION=2.99.98
SYSCONFDIR=/etc
MAILSPOOLDIR=/var/spool/mail/
SCHEME=mbox
LOG_FACILITY=mail
IPV6
USE_LIBPAM
HAVE_LIBLTDL
WITH_BDB
WITH_GDBM
WITH_GNUTLS
WITH_PTHREAD
WITH_READLINE
HAVE_MYSQL
WITH_LDAP
WITH_LIBWRAP
ENABLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS
ENABLE_IMAP
ENABLE_POP
ENABLE_MH
ENABLE_MAILDIR
ENABLE_SMTP
ENABLE_SENDMAIL

Tried with mailx package instead and i didn't have any issue.

mail -f /var/spool/mail/root
/var/spool/mail/root: 0 messages

And the file has messages.

ls -l /var/spool/mail/root
-rw-rw---- 1 root mail 142196 Aug  6 08:51 /var/spool/mail/root

Is there any way to run it in debug mode?

Thanks,

On 18 April 2014 at 16:22, Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Giorgos,

Several questions:

> For root using mail -f /var/mail/root gives the following output:

Did you run this command as root, or as another user?

> //var/mail/root: 0 messages/

What are these slashes at the beginning and end of each output line?
Are they really displayed on your screen or do you add them manually
for some purpose?

> For a user, which belongs to mail group, using mail -f
> /var/mail/$USER, i can see the messages.

What is the owner/group and permissions on that file?

Regards,
Sergey