Re: [opensuse] Getting system mail in 12.1

Bob Williams [06.03.2012 12:18]:
Hi Werner,

Firstly, I'm using systemd not sysVinit, if that makes a difference.

So do I. It should not make a difference, since the "old" commands are
modified so that they can "speak" with both worlds. Talking to systemd
seems to start with "systemctl" always ;-)

Rest of my reply inline below ...

On 06/03/12 10:03, Werner Flamme wrote:
Bob Williams [06.03.2012 10:09]:

In previous openSUSE installations I have checked the box for the first
user to get system mail, and it works.

On this new 12.1 installation with KDE 4.7.2, with a pre-existing /home,
I did the same, but no system mail comes to the user.

Even after doing

:~ # service postfix start
:~ # chkconfig postfix on

an incantation that I found on a forum, root now gets mail, but it is
not redirected to me.

Any suggestions

Bob

Hi Bob,

I think postfix is special on 12.1. On one of my 12.1 boxes, "insserv
postfix" was not sufficient. I had to issue "systemctl enable
postfix.service", though insserv told me the command was passed to
systemctl.

First, do a "grep root /etc/aliases". One of the resulting lines should
point to your account, like (in my case)

root: werner

Mine says root: bob

So, this seems to be OK, unless your account has another name ;-). "echo
"$LOGNAME, $USER" should output "bob, bob" now :-)

Maybe you have to fix this on your box.

Second, check if postfix uses this aliases file by "postconf
alias_maps". You should get a line like

alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases

Same here, so no changes required.

Right.

If you have a line like "alias_maps = hash:/etc/postix/aliases", you
refer to the wrong aliases file. Fix the config (/etc/postfix/main.cf)
to point to /etc/aliases.

Then do a "newaliases" as root, and a "rcpostfix reload" as root. After
that, new system mail should be delivered to your mailbox (old mail is
not sent again, of course).

Did you do a "newaliases" as user root, so that the file /etc/aliases.db
is newer than /etc/aliases? Because the "hash:" at the start means that
postfix lokks for the .db file. The "newaliases" command creates the
hash file from the text file. And doing a "rcpostfix reload" will not do
any harm, either :-)

I think I need to wait for new mail to root to be generated (there are
23 old messages in root's mailspool), as everything seems to set up OK
here now.

wflamme@rz36:~> mail -s "just a test" root
something to read
..
EOT

and soon you will have mail :-) If not, we have a real problem...

Regards,
Werner

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