Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1479 mails)

[Werner Flamme <werner.flamme@xxxxxxxx>]

Bob Williams [06.03.2012 10:09]:

> In previous openSUSE installations I have checked the box for the first
> user to get system mail, and it works.
>
> On this new 12.1 installation with KDE 4.7.2, with a pre-existing /home,
> I did the same, but no system mail comes to the user.
>
> Even after doing
>
> :~ # service postfix start
> :~ # chkconfig postfix on
>
> an incantation that I found on a forum, root now gets mail, but it is
> not redirected to me.
>
> Any suggestions
>
> Bob

Hi Bob,

I think postfix is special on 12.1. On one of my 12.1 boxes, "insserv
postfix" was not sufficient. I had to issue "systemctl enable
postfix.service", though insserv told me the command was passed to
systemctl.

First, do a "grep root /etc/aliases". One of the resulting lines should
point to your account, like (in my case)

root: werner

Maybe you have to fix this on your box.

Second, check if postfix uses this aliases file by "postconf
alias_maps". You should get a line like

alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases

If you have a line like "alias_maps = hash:/etc/postix/aliases", you
refer to the wrong aliases file. Fix the config (/etc/postfix/main.cf)
to point to /etc/aliases.

Then do a "newaliases" as root, and a "rcpostfix reload" as root. After
that, new system mail should be delivered to your mailbox (old mail is
not sent again, of course).

BTW: on openSUSE, you nomally do not use "service $something start", but
"rcsomething start", and "insserv something" instead of "chkconfig
something on" - though it should do exactly the same. I think you found
a RedHat incantation ;-)

HTH
Werner

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