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- From: lear@yeager.corp.sgi.com (Eliot Lear)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: Re: mail: can't send to given user
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.173354.27743@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 17:33:54 GMT
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- In <84265@netnews.upenn.edu> yates@a.chem.upenn.edu (John H. Yates) writes:
- >On an SGI machine running IRIX 4.0.4 I have a peculiar
- >mail problem I don't understand. All users can send/receive
- >Internet mail just fine, except one user klein. He can send
- >mail out, but incoming mail bounces. A 'mail -v' to him
- >shows 'mail: Can't send to klein' and bounces it.
-
- Here's a common problem as of 4.0.4: On SGIs /bin/mail is somewhat
- picky about who it will deliver mail to. Not only must you be in
- /etc/passwd, but your directory *must* exist; so if you're using some
- sort of NFS configuration with regard to either the user's home
- directory or a mail spool, and the receiving end doesn't see the
- user's directory for whatever reason, you're hosed.
- --
- Eliot Lear
- [lear@sgi.com]
-