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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!hunter.premier.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!demos!Gamma.RU!srcc!news1.relcom.ru!satisfy.kiae.su!news.intercom.ru!prim.sartax.saratov.su!not-for-mail From: skp@sartax.saratov.su (Serge K. Polyakov) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: smail 3.1.29.1 delivery problems Date: 12 Aug 1996 13:50:37 +0400 Organization: State Tax Service of Saratov dist. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4umupd$n5l@prim.sartax.saratov.su> References: <Dvs0ow.C0t@racoon.riga.lv> NNTP-Posting-Host: prim.sartax.saratov.su X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Fair pay (fairpay@stoat.riga.lv) wrote: > Hello, > there are problems with mail delivery to local mail boxes by SMAIL > 3.1.29.1 under FreeBSD 2.1.0 on local host. > local transport was reconfigured to use mail.local, however this still > causes mail to root to fail always. If default smail local transport > is used, then this causes mail delivery to fail always for any users > on the system. This is related to file permission and locks somehow, > I suspect. You can try to set up permissions on /var/mail: rwxrwxrwt (set sticky-bit) -- Serge Polyakov. phone: +7-8452-243128 (8.00 - 17.00, MSK) fax: +7-8452-516280 e-mail: skp@sartax.saratov.su