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shams

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Registered: 2020-08-08

Posts: 22

No mail box for current user?

I installed the arch linux and setup mail server with exim and dovecot, i telnet the port 25 and it is woking, there is no mail box for my user name in /var/spool/mail, i run this command as root to create the mail box:

echo "this is test message" | mail my_user_name

but do nothing, any help please?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 60,968

Re: No mail box for current user?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/238 … -unix-mail

However before we go over your exim configuration, what's the intention here? Do you actually want to run a mail server or jus be able to have some daemon send local mails?
The latter doesn't require an actual MTA (because the mbox format is just a simple text file) and the former requires you to dive deep into the exim wiki.
Setting up a mail server is easy. Setting up a mail server that's not a security and malware slingshot nightmare is not.

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