Failed to start sendmail : start... User unknown /dead.letter... Saved message in /dead.letter

Failed to start sendmail : start... User unknown /dead.letter... Saved message in /dead.letter

Post by Lesli » Wed, 09 May 2001 03:02:06



Alright now that i have all of sendmail configured right or so i thought I
get this error when I try to start it...

Failed to start sendmail : start... User unknown /dead.letter... Saved
message in /dead.letter
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----

Then when i look in /dead.letter this is what it shows in there

From root Mon May  7 18:00:12 2001
Return-Path: <root>

        by freakybutt.freakybutt.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f47N0C613696
        for start; Mon, 7 May 2001 18:00:12 -0500 (CDT)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 18:00:12 -0500 (CDT)
From: Super-User <root>

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----

I"m just having all sorts of problems.. but I think this is my last one :-)
So uhh can someone help me??

- Leslie

 
 
 

Failed to start sendmail : start... User unknown /dead.letter... Saved message in /dead.letter

Post by Lesli » Wed, 09 May 2001 04:08:31


nevermind ont his one too already figured it out...

- Leslie


> Alright now that i have all of sendmail configured right or so i thought I
> get this error when I try to start it...

> Failed to start sendmail : start... User unknown /dead.letter... Saved
> message in /dead.letter
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> ----

> Then when i look in /dead.letter this is what it shows in there

> From root Mon May  7 18:00:12 2001
> Return-Path: <root>

>         by freakybutt.freakybutt.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f47N0C613696
>         for start; Mon, 7 May 2001 18:00:12 -0500 (CDT)
> Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 18:00:12 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Super-User <root>

> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> ----

> I"m just having all sorts of problems.. but I think this is my last one
:-)
> So uhh can someone help me??

> - Leslie


 
 
 

Failed to start sendmail : start... User unknown /dead.letter... Saved message in /dead.letter

Post by Suresh Ramasubramani » Wed, 09 May 2001 11:16:36


Leslie proclaimed on comp.mail.sendmail that:

Quote:> nevermind ont his one too already figured it out...

Yabbut, did you have to crosspost to half a dozen newsgroups to find this out?


> > Alright now that i have all of sendmail configured right or so i thought I
> > get this error when I try to start it...
> > Failed to start sendmail : start... User unknown /dead.letter... Saved
> > message in /dead.letter

--
Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus Indigenensis

EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin  
 
 
 

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Can anyone help with my problem with the mail cmd and the DEAD env var
to change directory of dead.letter.
On my system the dead.letter will not go to directory specified in
DEAD variable (AIX4.3)

I did the following:
/home/user1> export DEAD=/home/logger/mail/logs
/home/user1> mail someone
next type some crap en press ctrl^d. The following appears:
/home/user1> someone... User unknown
/home/user1/dead.letter... Saved message in /home/user1/dead.letter

I have read and write permission in every directory mentioned here.
I just can't get the mail deamon to place the dead.letter somewhere
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Can somebody help?
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