Re: [opensuse] Re: How to get system mail delivered to user?

Bob Williams wrote:

On 02/10/12 07:03, Per Jessen wrote:

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Malcolm wrote:

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On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:07:15 +0100 Bob Williams wrote:

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On 01/10/12 20:49, Malcolm wrote:

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On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:21:10 +0100 Bob Williams wrote:

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Once upon a time, in the days of oS 12.1 and earlier, I used to get system mail delivered to me. This seems to have stopped since moving to 12.2, in spite of the fact that my user has the 'Receive System Mail' option checked in YaST > Security and Users > User and Group Management.

:~> mail No mail for bob :~> su - Password: :~# mail Heirloom mailx version 12.5 7/5/10. Type ? for help. "/var/spool/mail/root": 17 messages 17 new

Is there anything else I need to do? Add myself to :wheel?

Bob Hi Edit the file /etc/postfix/aliases there is a section called 'root' add your user name, probably needs un-rem as well ;) save/quit then run newaliases command.

Malcolm,

Many thanks. Presumably YaST should have done that when I checked the 'Receive System Mail' option?

Bob

Hi Bob Hmmm it adds it to /etc/aliases by the looks.... which should also work... (needs to change old habits)

User bob is now receiving system mail :)

Bob, check if /etc/aliases contains a line like this:

root bob, \root

It does

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Also check the dates of /etc/aliases and /etc/aliases.db, the latter should be newer.

It is

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If those are all fine, we'll need to look at your mail log and see what happens to a mail to root.

What are we looking for?

There are some lines preceding the changes suggested by Malcolm which warn that /etc/aliases.db is older than /etc/aliases

Okay, that means that "newaliases" or "postmap /etc/aliases" wasn't run when /etc/aliases was changed. Let's check your /etc/postfix/main.cf to make sure "alias_maps" does in fact point to /etc/aliases. Just grep for alias_maps. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (11.9°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org