09-13-2004
root mailbox problem
Hi,
I have a linux box which works as an smtp server. Past few months I am facing a problem, all the mails which my local lan users send to the outside world, all such mail gets bounced to root's mailbox. Also I have found that the mails which get bounced to the root's mailbox are mostly undelivered mails due to some reason.
I don't know why it doesn't go directly to the sender.
The kind of mails the root's mailbox receive is huge. Off which some are genuine.
Please let me know what are the configuration changes I need to do to resolve this problem.
Regards,
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Does anyone know where can I find information about UNIX mailbox files' organization? I am willing to develop a file-mailbox-compliant mail agent, but for doing so I need that information. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: exile
1 Replies
2. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi!!
Where can i delete or find the *.mbox files in unix???
Please help me!! (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: Juergen1234
3 Replies
3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
I would like to migrate my current system's mailboxes to mail folders and i'm currently running exim! Anyone help with a new mail server and the migration to the one? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: enzophite
1 Replies
4. Solaris
I have 3 servers all running solaris 9 using ssh
I changed the root passwd on all 3 a few months ago.
I cannot log in as root currently as it wont accept password.
I try to su from another user to root - when I type the password that I know to be correct it rejects the password immediately... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: frustrated1
1 Replies
5. Solaris
I use gmail to POP my account because of the spamfilter. From time to time I receive an error message
"Connection timed out: There may be a problem with the settings you added. Ple..." after this I am no longer able to retrieve my mails because of the blocked session: "... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rolandk
1 Replies
6. Solaris
hi
i was just playing with my x86 machine with solaris10 on it
what i hated was whenever i started my new terminal it started with sh shell
so i changed it to bash by changing the last value in /etc/passwd to/sbin/bash
and then i logged out and started again BBUT it said no login shell
i... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: tiwsaj
8 Replies
7. Shell Programming and Scripting
HI guys,
I used my server linux how server to send and receive mails, but my mailbox now are so big and I need delete old mails, I found a program in the web called "expired_mail", but i found some problem with this porgram because delete some files mailbox "big problem"
Somebody know... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: jcordova
5 Replies
8. HP-UX
this was handy for me. stout goes to mail here.
#mailbox
pgm=mailbox
USER1=`eval whoami`
... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Bill L.
2 Replies
9. Red Hat
I am using Fedora 14. I got two problems after installation:
1) After installation when I tried login through root it said bad authentication failure. After login through restricted user I tried to test su in terminal which worked with same password.
2) It doesn't have any wireless firmware... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: nixhead
2 Replies
10. Solaris
Hi All
After downloading ZFS documentation from oracle site, I am able to successfully migrate UFS root FS without zones to ZFS root FS. But in case of UFS root file system with zones , I am successfully able to migrate global zone to zfs root file system but zone are still in UFS root file... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: sb200
2 Replies
LEARN ABOUT MOJAVE
mail.local
mail.local(1M) System Administration Commands mail.local(1M)
NAME
mail.local - store mail in a mailbox
SYNOPSIS
/usr/lib/mail.local [-f sender] [-d] recipient
DESCRIPTION
mail.local reads the standard input up to an end-of-file and appends it to each user's mail file (mailbox). This program is intended to be
used by sendmail(1M) as a mail delivery agent for local mail. It is not a user interface agent.
Messages are appended to the user's mail file in the /var/mail directory. The user must be a valid user name.
Each delivered mail message in the mailbox is preceded by a "Unix From line" with the following format:
From sender_address time_stamp
The sender_address is extracted from the SMTP envelope address (the envelope address is specified with the -f option).
A trailing blank line is also added to the end of each message.
The mail files are locked with a .lock file while mail is appended.
The mail files are created with mode 660, owner is set to recipient, and group is set to mail. If the ``biff'' service is returned by get-
servbyname(3SOCKET), the biff server is notified of delivered mail. This program also computes the Content-Length: header which will be
used by the mailbox reader to mark the message boundary.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-f sender Specifies the "envelope from address" of the message. This flag is technically optional, but should be used.
-d Specifies the recipient of the message. This flag is also optional and is supported here for backward compatibility. That
is, mail.local recipient is the same as mail.local -d recipient.
-l Turn on LMTP mode.
-r from Specify the sender's name (for backward compatibility).
-7 Do not advertise 8BITMIME support in LMTP mode.
-b Return a permanent error instead of a temporary error if a mailbox exceeds quota.
OPERANDS
The following operand is supported:
recipient The recipient of the mail message.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
TZ Used to set the appropriate time zone on the timestamp.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful operation.
>0 An error occurred.
FILES
/tmp/local.XXXXXX temporary files
/tmp/lochd.XXXXXX temporary files
/var/mail/user_name user's mail file
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWsndmu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
mail(1), comsat(1M), sendmail(1M), getservbyname(3SOCKET), attributes(5)
SunOS 5.10 11 Apr 1997 mail.local(1M)