ftw@datacube.UUCP (12/22/87)
Here's a strange one that a real Mail-guru might know about:
The program: /usr/ucb/Mail
The OS: Pyramid dualPort OSx (Berkeley 4.3 universe)
The Symptoms:
When I read my mail, sometimes more mail will come in. If I choose to
Reply to a letter I am reading, and more mail has come in, mail will
respond with:
~ftw/mailbox/out1987: Ambiguous
and will not append the outgoing letter to that logfile. This does not
interfere with the mail getting to the sender, however. The other thing
that happens is that Mail will create a file named "^A" (sans quotes)
in the current working directory, and stick a copy of the outgoing mail
into that. If "^A" exists, the outgoing letter is appended.
This does not appear to happen if I do not receive any NEW mail while
Replying to a letter. Only when new mail comes in, and I'm already
reading mail (you all followed that sentence, right ;-)
Farrell T. Woods
Datacube Inc. Systems / Software Group 4 Dearborn Rd. Peabody, Ma 01960
VOICE: 617-535-6644; FAX: (617) 535-5643; TWX: (710) 347-0125
INTERNET: ftw@datacube.COM
UUCP: {rutgers, ihnp4, mirror}!datacube!ftw
"OS/2 -- Half an operating system"OWENSJ%VTVM1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (John Owens) (12/29/87)
>When I read my mail, sometimes more mail will come in. If I choose to >Reply to a letter I am reading, and more mail has come in, mail will >respond with: > ~ftw/mailbox/out1987: Ambiguous What's happening is that Mail is calling the csh to evaluate the pathname (since it contains a tilde), and the shell is coming back with more than one word. Mail then considers the shell to have expanded a wildcard to more than one file, and says "Ambiguous". (Mail calls the shell if you give it a filename with any of ?*^ or possibly other characters.) What are the other words? "You have new mail."....
ftw@datacube.UUCP (12/30/87)
Thanks to those who responded to my question about Mail. I will have to
admit to just not thinking about the twiddle in my .mailrc causing csh
to be invoked again.
Farrell T. Woods
Datacube Inc. Systems / Software Group 4 Dearborn Rd. Peabody, Ma 01960
VOICE: 617-535-6644; FAX: (617) 535-5643; TWX: (710) 347-0125
INTERNET: ftw@datacube.COM
UUCP: {rutgers, ihnp4, mirror}!datacube!ftw
"OS/2 -- Half an operating system"