Owner and permissions of /var/mail/me

[Michael R Head]

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 10:04 -0400, Carthik Sharma wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/1/05, Michael R Head <burner at suppressingfire.org> wrote:
>         On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 23:26 +1000, Russell Cook wrote:
>         > What is the default mail package for dealing with internal
>         system
>         > messages?
>         > When I check for mail I get the following:
>         
>         burner at phoenix:~$ dpkg -S `which mail` 
>         mailx: /usr/bin/mail
> 
> I guess this "mail" is the program used to read the mail
> in /var/mail/username - i was talking about the agent used to send
> mail outside my box.
> 
> Also, answers as to how to recreate /var/mail/carthik would be
> welcome :)

Like the other fellow said, 
$ echo test | mail carthik
ought to do it

postfix is the default package for handling SMTP mail delivery on
Ubuntu.

mike

> 
> Carthik.
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Michael R Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
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