Which mail package are you using? Sendmail, Postfix, ... In the future, I suggest putting the configuration files under version control. Then you know what files changed and how, and always have a working set you can fall back to. Jeffrey Quoting Alain DIDIERJEAN :

I've been working on my mail system these day. Everything works fine, except that e-mails generated locally (usually from cron to root) end no longer in /var/mail/root but go to /var/spool/mqueue where they stay as they are refused by the provider's mail-server. Outgoing e-mails are processed OK. Where should I look ? Thanks,

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Alain DIDIERJEAN a écrit :

I've been working on my mail system these day. Everything works fine, except that e-mails generated locally (usually from cron to root) end no longer in /var/mail/root but go to /var/spool/mqueue where they stay as they are refused by the provider's mail-server. Outgoing e-mails are processed OK. Where should I look ? Thanks,

Thanks to all who helped. Things went back to what I expected since I commented out the last line in this excerpt from /etc/rc.config.d/sendmail.rc.config : # # do not deliver any email locally, but send all email to another host # this can just be used with another system that has the same users on it # and you probably also want to set the FROM_HEADER to the other host # #SENDMAIL_RELAY="pop.free.fr" Hope it can help... -- ~adj~ Ces mystères nous dépassent Feignons d'en être l'organisateur...