F20 Where's my system mail?

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Arthur,

Sorry about my late response.

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 04:51:38PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote:
> 
> Another update:
> I do have msmtp installed on this system in order to be able to mail
> from php scripts. I have temporarily disabled it by moving .msmtprc out
> of the way.
> 
> When I log in as another user on the system (Let's call her Mary) I can
> do:
> $ mail mark
> Subject: Test Message
> Just testing...
> [CTRL-d]
> EOT
> 
> and the message appears in /var/spool/mail/mark
> 
> But when I log in as Mark I get this:
> $ mail mary
> Subject: Testing internal messaging
> Testing internal email
> [CTRL-d]
> EOT
> [mark at Zaphod]$ send-mail: account default not found: no configuration file available

It looks like this is the crux of your problem.  I presume you checked
mary gets mails for her cron jobs?

That said, I do not know enough about system mail to point you to
possible sources of your problem, however I would start by running mail
with the verbose flag.

> 
> Is this significant?

I would say, definitely so.

Hope this helps,

-- 
Suvayu

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