My two cents with rbattel, those are unread messages, figure out why it is generating it, by logging in as that user and running mail (as mentioned by rbattel).
Also, check your cron, see if you are missing > /dev/null 2>&1 for jobs.
Also check if you have the correct smtp server name in /etc/sendmail.cf file
If it does not then add the server name and restart the sendmail service.
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i am on aix,
in the /var/spool/mail ,i have an entry as below, after doing a ls -ltr
-rw-rw---- 1 ai mail 3898 Sep 02 11:26 mei
-rw-rw---- 1 root mail 22900 Nov 08 14:55 root
shouldnt the ai and mei be the same just like root, root?
thanks (2 Replies)
Dear All,
Now I use solaris 10 and I try to forward mail from /var/mail/username to their external mail so what should I do?
thank u in advance (2 Replies)
Hi,
We have all the user account in a home direcory where their mail is stored and retrieved by email clients. We do however have /var/spool/mail with all the user accounts in it as well Our sendmail.cf is configured to use /var/spool/mqueue as the queue so .what is /var/spool/mail being used... (3 Replies)
Hi,
First Question: In our company our users have their mailboxes in /var/spool/mail
When I look at the users file it seems as if every email sent/received is in that user file! Is this because IMAP is being used or is that just how sendmail works?
Second Question: How is that when I create... (3 Replies)
Hi,
How can i get my mail on either /var/spool/mail or /var/mail?
I use mail and sendmail command to send mail. But everytime I send mail it comes to my outlook inbox and when I check with mail command I get the message "No mail for siba". (Note siba is my user Id.) (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have some problems w/ the sendmail. I see that messages are queued in the /var/spool/mqueue
and they are never sent to the recipients. This problem just suddenly started without any modifications in the current configuration. I already started and stop the sendmail and it did not help.... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I have a bunch of cron jobs in the crontab. For some reason mail from the cron jobs started going to /var/spool/mqueue instead of being sent.
Does anyone know why mail from cron jobs would go to the queue instead of being sent? (9 Replies)
Hi
My box is running with AIX 6100-06 and Im the root user of this box
My /var gets filled up often to 100%
When I investigate I find that it is the below file which increases rapidly
/var/spool/mail/pdgadmin
I dont know why this file is growing up.
Can any one assist me on this.... (2 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
sensible-mda
SENSIBLE-MDA(8) System Manager's Manual SENSIBLE-MDA(8)NAME
sensible-mda - a generic local MDA router for Debian systems
SYNOPSIS
sensible-mda from to detail client-addr
DESCRIPTION
sensible-mda is used to simplify the installation and configuration of sendmail(8) , or other MTAs for use on Debian systems. With sensi-
ble-mda, sendmail can support a plethora of MDAs (procmail, maildrop, deliver, etc.) without having pick any one of them as required.
FUNCTION
sensible-mda is called by sendmail as a local mailer when the following exists in sendmail.mc:
define(`LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS', `sensible-mda $g $u $h ${client_addr}')dnl
sensible-mda will look for the following MDAs (in this order), and pass the mail on to the first SUID MDA found (Or first found MDA, if run
w/euid=root): procmail(1), maildrop(1), deliver(8), mail.local(8)OPTIONS
Available command line options are the following:
from The sender of this email (sendmail $g variable)
to The recipient of this email (sendmail $u variable)
detail The detail portion of the recipient userid (sendmail $h variable) - ie:
cowboy+sendmail@debian.org
client-addr
TCP/IP address of the sender (sendmail ${client_addr} variable) Not used (for the nonce)
FILES
/etc/mail/sendmail.mc
sendmail m4 input to generate sendmail.cf
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf
actual sendmail configuration file (treated as a binary file)
SEE ALSO sendmail(8), procmail(1), maildrop(1), deliver(8), mail.local(8)BUGS
None known so far.
AUTHOR
Richard Nelson <cowboy@debian.org>
HISTORY 4th Berkeley Distribution October 21 1999 SENSIBLE-MDA(8)