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- Path: sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!sgi!rhyolite!vjs
- From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
- Subject: Re: mail problem with one user
- Message-ID: <nmbr6ss@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <84266@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 05:42:36 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <84266@netnews.upenn.edu>, yates@a.chem.upenn.edu (John H. Yates) writes:
- > On a 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.
- >
- > A finger looks ok, I have the same sendmail.cf working
- > on more than 6 other SGI's, I've rebuilt it anyway,
- > and I've removed and readded klein as a user. He tells
- > me that if a .forward file is there to someone else,
- > it works. I checked the aliases file and there are
- > none for him. He has no .mailrc file. I have checked
- > /usr/mail for a klein file (none), and checked
- > /usr/spool/mqueue for any files (none).
- >
- > /bin/mail is exactly the same, including protections and
- > ownership as at another SGI machine at IRIX 4.0.4
- > that I just added a klein account to and it receives
- > mail just fine.
- >
- > What can be wrong on the one machine?
-
-
- Read `grep ^klein /etc/passwd` very, very carefully.
-
- Check `ypmatch klein passwd` and `ypmatch klein aliases`.
-
- Try `mkdir ~klein; chown klein ~klein`.
-
- Check for a lock file (not mail box) for klein in /usr/mail.
-
-
- Vernon Schryver, vjs@sgi.com
-