reading root's mail

[Jamie Griffin]

On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 05:41:01AM -0500, Glenn Holmer wrote:
> Nope.  If it do "mutt -f /var/mail/mail", I can see recent mails to
> root.  There are no other files in that directory.

It seems as though the MTA has created a mailbox called 'mail' in the /var/mail directory. That suggests to me the MTA thinks the user is 'mail'? Not certain on that, but perhaps taking a closer look at your Exim configuration would shed some more light.

Sorry i couldn't be of more help.

Jamie





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