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The additional (non-root) user I created during install, "hal" will

"sam" I have created with webmin will not receive email. I can't see any
difference between the two types of user, except that "hal" belongs to his
own group, and "sam" belongs to a group "webusers" I created, also with
webmin.

Here's the error message (edited out names and IPs) that sendmail returns

Unable to deliver message to the following address(es).

256.256.256.256 does not like recipient.

Giving up on 256.256.256.256 .

The aliases are set up very simply and consistently in webmin, for both
"hal" and "sam". The mailbox viewer in webmin functions perfectly for hal,
but nothing arrives for sam and other 'webusers'.

Do I need to issue some special rights to webusers to get them to recieve
mail? I have logged in with "sam", the account is functioning perfectly
otherwise.

Thanks.

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Quote:> Just curious how owner, group and permissions compare for
> /var/spool/mail/hal and /var/spool/mail/sam or what is listed for MAIL in
> sam's environment when logged in as sam.

I think you've spotted a possible source of the problem. Even though webmin
shows an 'entry' for a mailbox for sam, only root and hal have ever received
mail, and thus have existing mailbox files. Is a mailbox file only created
when and if a mail message arrives? Is there a tool to condition the mailbox
files to ensure consistency, existence, etc.?

I tried logging in as 'hal' and using commandline mail to send a starter
message to 'sam', but I didn't have any luck.

this is a test
Cc:

/home/hal/dead.letter... Saved message in /home/hal/dead.letter

No mail for sam

And the sam environment bears a further inconsitency:

MAIL=/var/spool/mail/sam

Thanks for your insight. I wonder where this mystery will lead.

BTW, I changed sam from the group 'webusers' to the group 'hal' which was
created at install time. It didn't affect the behavior.

Quote:> I think you've spotted a possible source of the problem. Even though
webmin
> shows an 'entry' for a mailbox for sam, only root and hal have ever
received
> mail, and thus have existing mailbox files. Is a mailbox file only created
> when and if a mail message arrives? Is there a tool to condition the
mailbox
> files to ensure consistency, existence, etc.?

Message from  yahoo.com.
Unable to deliver message to the following address(es).

256.256.256.256does not like recipient.

Giving up on 256.256.256.256.

First add all names that your machine is known as to /etc/mail/local-host-names
That includes cbs.com
Then create a entry in your (you do have one, right) virtusertable

more if you wish

etc. etc.

do: makemap hash virtusertable < virtusertable

restart sendmail and I think it just might work.

The virtusertable maps virtual account addresses to 'real' accounts...

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