Receiving System Mail

[danpixley]

This is kind of a newbie question, so please bare with me.

I recently installed a bare bones Gentoo system for running apache. I am trying to figure out the details of how to set up inter-system mail. For example, I want root to be able to receive mail messages from various loggers. How do I set this up?

I already have Exim installed, but I am assuming I need to do more because there is still no 'mail' command available (that I know of) that allows me or a process to send mail to users on the system. Also, what kind of configurating do I need to do to allow for inter-system mailing only, and not a full-fledged mail server? Are there any security issues I should be aware of?

Thank you,
Dan
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[Genone]

The `mail` command is in the net-mail/mailx package, it's basically just a wrapper for the sendmail binary (which is installed by any email server, not only sendmail).

[danpixley]

Thanks for the reply. I emerged mailx and sendmail, and unmerged Exim. I can now access the 'mail' command, and it appears to want to send mail, but I do not receive mail. When I type:

root@dpix dpix # mail -s "test" root
sdfsadfsdfsd
Cc: <enter>
<ctrl -d>
root@dpix dpix # mail
No mail for root

I have tried with other users, but the mail does not arrive for them either. /var/log/mail.info contains:

Jun 14 12:04:45 dpix sendmail[11590]: i5EJ4jFw011590: from=root, size=39, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200406141904.i5EJ4jFw011590@dpix.crapnetwork>, relay=root@localhost
Jun 14 12:04:45 dpix sm-mta[11591]: alias database /etc/mail/aliases.db out of date
Jun 14 12:04:45 dpix sm-mta[11591]: i5EJ4jUq011591: from=<root@dpix.crapnetwork>, size=327, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200406141904.i5EJ4jFw011590@dpix.crapnetwork>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=dpix.crapnetwork [127.0.0.1]
Jun 14 12:04:45 dpix sendmail[11590]: i5EJ4jFw011590: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30039, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (i5EJ4jUq011591 Message accepted for delivery)
Jun 14 12:04:45 dpix sm-mta[11592]: alias database /etc/mail/aliases.db out of date
Jun 14 12:04:45 dpix sm-mta[11592]: i5EJ4jUq011591: to=<root@dpix.crapnetwork>, ctladdr=<root@dpix.crapnetwork> (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30545, dsn=2.0.0,
stat=Sent

/etc/mail/aliases:

# Basic system aliases -- these MUST be present.
MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster
postmaster: root

# General redirections for pseudo accounts.
adm: root
bin: root
daemon: root
exim: root
lp: root
mail: root
named: root
nobody: root
postfix: root

# Well-known aliases -- these should be filled in!
# root:
# operator:

# Standard RFC2142 aliases
abuse: postmaster
ftp: root
hostmaster: root
news: usenet
noc: root
security: root
usenet: root
uucp: root
webmaster: root
www: webmaster

# trap decode to catch security attacks
# decode: /dev/null

Is there something wrong with my aliases?

Thanks,
Dan
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[danpixley]

Ran newaliases. Then:

root@dpix log # mail -s "Test" root
mailing root
Cc:
root@dpix log # mailq
/var/spool/mqueue is empty
Total requests: 0
root@dpix log # mail
No mail for dpix

Why does it say 'no mail for dpix' when I am doing this as root?

Thanks,
Dan
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