where is the mail spool ?

[haneo]

I our server Solaris 8 i just have the root password, so when i at to see the mail spool (under linux it s in /var/spool/mail)

bash-2.03# ls -la /var/spool/mail
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 48480 Nov 21 2001 .
drwxr-xr-x 12 root bin 312 Dec 14 11:43 ..


Where is the mail spool ???

We use sendmail.

 

[SeSe]

var/spool/mqueue
Regds,
SeSe

 

[haneo]

Thanks !

But in this folder ther is the outgoing mail, i want to see the arrived mail and that users can read by doing:
#mail

in linux it is /var/spool/mail
in solaris this directory is empty

 

[aixmurderer]

Do you have aliases defined for the users which may be sending it elsewhere? (/etc/aliases)

Or there could be .forward files in the users' home directories which forward it on elsewhere. IBM Certified Specialist - MQSeries
IBM Certified Specialist - AIX 5 pSeries System Administration

 

[klasan]

/var/mail ?

 

[ezekialj]

I believe that sendmail uses the mail box held in the MAIL variable - therefore try

#echo $MAIL

you should get a default mailbox returned (/var/mail/username)