* Odhiambo G. Washington <wash@???> [20020208 18:59]: wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I have a problem that seems minor but after a terrible day I seem lost.
>
> On my Exim (3.953) config file I have:
>
> # Exim user and those whose uids no delivery should occur.
>
> exim_user = mailnull
> exim_group = mail
> never_users = root : mailnull
>
> I was running a process as root and I wanted to send the results to my main acct
> on a machine where I read my mail.
>
> #do foo | bar | mail wash@??? &
>
> This completed but the mail never came. I then checked and realised that even the
> system mails to root never got delivered. So I tried the ultimate push...
>
> beastie# mailq
> 0m 349 16ZDL4-00012v-00 <root@???>
> wash@???
>
> beastie# exim -qff
> 2002-02-08 18:53:38 16ZDL4-00012v-00 User 26 set for remote_smtp transport is on the never_users list
> 2002-02-08 18:53:38 16ZDL4-00012v-00 == wash@??? R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp defer (-29): User 26 set for remote_smtp
> transport is on the never_users list
> beastie#
>
>
> ?? clues ???
>
Hello list,
Sorry for this bother.
After a cup of cold white coffee, I did
never_users = root
....removing mailnull
and I guess that is what my problem was.
Thanks for reserving your flames for a cold day ;-)
-Wash
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For my son, Robert, this is proving to be the high-point of his entire
life to date. He has had his pajamas on for two, maybe three days
now. He has the sense of joyful independence a 5-year-old child gets
when he suddenly realizes that he could be operating an acetylene torch
in the coat closet and neither parent [because of the flu] would have
the strength to object. He has been foraging for his own food, which
means his diet consists entirely of "food" substances which are
advertised only on Saturday-morning cartoon shows; substances that are
the color of jukebox lights and that, for legal reasons, have their
names spelled wrong, as in New Creemy Chok-'n'-Cheez Lumps o' Froot
("part of this complete breakfast").
-- Dave Barry, "Molecular Homicide"
