From: Eric Toll (ericrodan.vipstructures.com)
Date: Wed Jun 01 2005 - 15:50:10 CDT

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On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 16:27 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Eric Toll:
> >
> > When I type mail from my tcsh prompt I get nothing. Not even an error.
> >
> > [ericrodan]/home/eric(56): mail
> > [ericrodan]/home/eric(57): mail -vv
> > [ericrodan]/home/eric(58): mailq
> > Mail queue is empty
> > [ericrodan]/home/eric(59): mailx
> > [ericrodan]/home/eric(60): which mail
> > /usr/bin/mail
> > [ericrodan]/home/eric(61):
> >
> >
> > I do not understand what is wrong. This system is running FreeBSD 5.4
> > AMD64 Hammer. Postfix works better and faster than it ever has.
> > "Sendmail" also works fine.
> >
> > Pointers etcetera would be most appreciated.
>
> What's in /var/mail/eric ?
>
> Wietse

Just a bunch of text that is messages from this list. About 2 screens
worth.

Same for the root account. I copied /var/mail/root to another file,
then deleted /var/mail/root. Then I did a 'touch /var/mail/root' As
root when I type mail I get nothing. When I type mail
someuserdomain.tld I get nothing also.

Thanks kindly for your help.

Eric

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