bungi@milton.u.washington.edu (Timothy J. Wood) (04/26/91)
I am posting this for someone else. Please direct replies to jjcrump@milton.u.washington.edu Thanks much. ------------------------ Tim, This is driving me crazy! I thought I had this problem fixed. This time I tried to mail something to an unknown server and the mailing daemon sent it back to me but my mailbox has disappeared again! so it stuffed it into the EMERGENCY_MBOX again. Relevant files included below. #### my filter-rules file in .elm directory reads as follows: if (to contains "ansax-l") then save "/u8/jjcrump/Mail/Lists/ansax-l" if (to contains "anthro-l") then save "/u8/jjcrump/Mail/Lists/anthro-l" if (to contains "humanist") then save "/u8/jjcrump/Mail/Lists/humanist" #### .forward file in my root directory reads as follows: "|/usr/local/bin/filter -vo /u8/jjcrump/filt.errs" #### the -vo flags seem to work now and the filt.errs file it creates #### reads thus as a result of the mailing in question: filter (jjcrump): Mailing message to jjcrump filter (jjcrump): Couldn't create lockfile filter (jjcrump): Can't open mailbox /usr/spool/mail/jjcrump! filter (jjcrump): Using /u8/jjcrump/EMERGENCY_MBOX as emergency mailbox So Tim, what the devil is going on and what can I do about it? Jon Crump -------------------------