postfix setup

[sos]

I am trying to setup postfix on a mandrake 10.1 system.


I have two users duke and mike. duke can look at mail using the 'mail' command. When I try to run the 'mail' command from user mike's shell i get:

/var/spool/mail/duke: Permission denied

I checked that the file /var/spool/mail/mike exists and it does.

I have been looking at postfix documentation trying to figure out what setting in main.cf or elsewhere I should have.

 

[mrballcb]

For some reason, when you are user mike, it still tries to look for /var/spool/mail/duke (unless you made a typo in the description). If you are using su to change from use duke to mike, then try adding a dash:
su - mike
If you're logging in as mike, then there's something weird in the bash logon scripts for user mike.

Take a look at the permissions of /var/spool/mail/duke. It should be owned by duke:mail.

 

[sos]

Thanks for the reply,

I didn't realize su did that and I was using su.
But I now have a different problem(of course).

If i login to user mike with 'su - mike' or directly
at the local machine, I get "Bad address" when i try to run
mail.

 

[sos]

Btw the permissions for /var/spool/mail/duke are duke:mail

 

[sos]

Figured out my problem was incorrect permissions on a tmp folder in the home directory of user 'mike'. The 'Bad address' is gone and 'mail' now functions correctly!

Thanx again for your help mrballcb.