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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!dxcern!tifrvax.tifr.res.in!bhiksha From: bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in Subject: RE: NetBSD 0.9, Mail question.. Message-ID: <18OCT93.22301659@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> Sender: news@dxcern.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: MIT PLASMA FUSION CENTER References: <17OCT93.10221120@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> <29rikc$p3h@darum.uni-mannheim.de> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1993 22:30:16 GMT Lines: 37 In a previous article, toor@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de (Peppermint Lucy) wrote: >In article <17OCT93.10221120@tifrvax.tifr.res.in>, > <bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> wrote: >>I am unable to receive mail on my NetBSD 0.9. >>When i send mail locally (i.e to myself or anyone else on the m/c) >>the mail is stored in the spool/mqueue, but nothing appears in the >>spool/mail. >2 options: >a) read a book on configuring sendmail. >b) Edit /etc/sendmail.cf (or cp /etc/sendmail.cf_proto to it, and then edit) > Replace all the mentionings of relay-hosts, with the name of a > machine right near you, that knows how to send mail, best is your > official local mail-relay-host. > follow the other directions in /etc/sendmail.cf replacing where > neccessary. > > mail should land in /var/mail not in spool/mail. > > if above fails go to option a. >Cheers >-- >Bankers do it with interest (penalty for early withdrawal). 1) The sendmail is in daemon mode. 2) I am able to SEND mail... (i got the relay host stuff right). 3) I am unable to RECEIVE mail, even locally! 4) The /var/spool/mail was a mistake, it should have been /var/mail (am used the sunos type of stuff). Anyway, nothing goes there, even though the verbose mode of sendmail claims to have DELIVERED mail (for local mail). 5) There is very little in the SunOS 4 manuals that I referred to for the configuration file about setting up the cf file for RECEIVING mail. Help... bhiksha