Article:		Learning the Terminal in Jaguar, Part 2
Subject:		Problems with sending self mail
Date:		2004-08-01 14:19:09
From:		DrewE
I have Panther on my machine. Postfix was running while i tried to send myself a test email, but I had problems. I had no mail i my mailbox, so I checked the error log and found that supposedly "drew" isn't a user, even though "drew" sent the message. Does anyone recognize the problem here? Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks. This is what I typed into Terminal: (The log file shows the whole message for the one I sent at 17:12:07 only) Drew:/var/log Drew$ mail drew Subject: hey test . EOT Drew:/var/log Drew$ mail No mail for Drew Drew:/var/log Drew$ tail mail.local tail: mail.local: No such file or directory Drew:/var/log Drew$ mail drew Subject: hey test . EOT Drew:/var/log Drew$ mail No mail for Drew Drew:/var/log Drew$ tail mail.log Aug 1 17:11:37 localhost postfix/cleanup[707]: A3E0251F9C: message-id=<20040801211137.A3E0251F9C@Drew.local> Aug 1 17:11:37 localhost postfix/qmgr[623]: A3E0251F9C: from=<>, size=1767, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Aug 1 17:11:37 localhost postfix/local[709]: A3E0251F9C: to=<Drew@Drew.local>, relay=local, delay=0, status=bounced (unknown user: "drew") Aug 1 17:12:07 localhost postfix/pickup[706]: B5AA151FA1: uid=501 from=<Drew> Aug 1 17:12:07 localhost postfix/cleanup[707]: B5AA151FA1: message-id=<20040801211207.B5AA151FA1@Drew.local> Aug 1 17:12:07 localhost postfix/qmgr[623]: B5AA151FA1: from=<Drew@Drew.local>, size=291, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Aug 1 17:12:07 localhost postfix/local[709]: B5AA151FA1: to=<drew@Drew.local>, orig_to=<drew>, relay=local, delay=0, status=bounced (unknown user: "drew") Aug 1 17:12:07 localhost postfix/cleanup[707]: BAD1251FA3: message-id=<20040801211207.BAD1251FA3@Drew.local> Aug 1 17:12:07 localhost postfix/qmgr[623]: BAD1251FA3: from=<>, size=1767, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Aug 1 17:12:07 localhost postfix/local[709]: BAD1251FA3: to=<Drew@Drew.local>, relay=local, delay=0, status=bounced (unknown user: "drew") Drew:/var/log Drew$

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• Problems with sending self mail
  2004-08-04 09:00:58  NewYorkBruce [View]
  
  
  Uh, oh...
  
  See this tech note:
  
  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107110
  
  

• Problems with sending self mail
  2004-08-04 05:11:35  NewYorkBruce [View]
  
  
  Drew,
  
  Please let me know if you find a solution to this problem. I have the exact situation on one of my two 10.3.4 machines. I suspect we've got screwed up permissions somewhere.
  
  Thanks
• Problems with sending self mail
  2004-08-08 18:26:52  DrewE [View]
  
  
  Hello!! I have resolved this problem! Since my last post, I had gained another error which dealt obviously with permissions that I then fixed.
  
  Let me guess, the short name for the computer you're using has an uppercase letter? If that is the case, then it needs to be made lowercase. I started a discussion in apple.com/support pertaining to this problem, so you can check it out.
  
  Problems with postfix and Letter Case in User Name
  
  It's not actually called that, but whatever.
  
  There is a manual at apple.com/support that can help you change the short name of your user. Since I was only changing the case of my short user name, no new home directory was created because I guess OS X wasn't going to allow for both "Drew" and "drew" to exist as directories. Logged in as root, I just fixed the case of the name of the existing home directory to cover for this problem and then moved it to its parent directory using Terminal once the new user had been made to avoid deletion in the next step. I then deleted the old user as mentioned and instead of copying files afterwards, I just returned the modified home directory. The rest of the steps were basically the same. (This will make more sense once you've read the manual)
  
  I hope this works for you.. though this is quite an annoyance.. I just wish that Apple warned users to make their short user names lowercase when setting up the computer initially. Maybe I was warned and didn't pay attention.. Oh well. Good luck. (By the way, I'm no expert, so I can't actually guarantee that it works, but it did for me, and I have all of my preferences and settings back to normal. Also, chances are that there's an easier way, but this was all I could think of to do.)
  
  Again, Good Luck!!
• Problems with sending self mail
  2004-08-08 18:30:59  DrewE [View]
  
  
  Sorry, the full discussion is here