[comp.mail.elm] problem with newmail

oneill@bu-tyng.bu.edu (Brian O'Neill) (07/01/88)

When using newmail on our Multimax under UMAX 4.2, and then logging out, it
seems the newmail process is not killed. It just sticks around, until
someone kills it. I ended up with 5 newmail processes running before I found
out. Anyone know why this is happening?? I know it doesn't happen under BSD
4.3 or Dynix 2.1.2...

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dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil) (03/02/91)

I can't figure out why newmail doesn't work. I'm on a Sun4, I
use c shell (in which I have set "notify"), newmail runs happily
after I start it (its there when I look at jobs that are running)
but completely ignores the arrival of any new mail! I ran newmail
with the debug on and it's only message was that it was starting
and checking my mail spool file, after that not a peep out of it.
Does anyone have an idea (based on this admittedly meager info)
what might be wrong, I can't think of what I should even start to
look at or check into.
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Dana E. Keil                Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
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