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I believe you need to set an alias so that you can use mail as a normal user. That's what I had to do.
Look at the contents of the file /etc/aliases, where it explains (kind of!) what you need to do. There is a line that sets the mail to be delivered to a "human" user and that's where you put your normal user name.
thanks for replay first
i already made changes in /etc/aliases file than also i am getting this error , its shows messages in mutt , not let you to read , when i changed the permission for /tmp to 777 every thing was working fine , but i think this is wrong to do so because it will let other to read your mails
Originally posted by anjani.78 thanks for replay first
i already made changes in /etc/aliases file than also i am getting this error , its shows messages in mutt , not let you to read , when i changed the permission for /tmp to 777 every thing was working fine , but i think this is wrong to do so because it will let other to read your mails
Try chown -R anjani:anjani /tmp and then chmod -R u+rxw /tmp and that should solve that problem. (Substitute whatever your normal user name is, for "anjani," if that isn't it.) Only the owner of the file (and root) can read the files then.
Though the question the other user asked regarded sendmail, postfix does need a "human" user designated. Here's the quote from the comments in /etc/aliases:
Code:
For various security reasons, postfix WILL NOT deliver mail as root, so
# ensure that the root alias is aliased to a HUMAN user, as otherwise
# mail may get delivered to the $default_privs user (nobody).
I used to use sendmail and had all kinds of trouble getting it to work and stay working. Then I switched to postfix and mutt, after the "mail" command used with sendmail ceased working, and it's been relatively smooth sailing ever since.
This is just for a one-user (me) simple desktop system.
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