jamison@yuma.acns.colostate.edu (Jamie Gulden) (04/27/91)
This might be a simple mail problem but can't seem to find it in the manuals. On a PI 4D/25, IRIX 3.3.2 when /bin/mail saves local mail from sendmail it leaves the ownership as daemon and group as mail. When a user tries to read his mail with Mail it says there is no mail, while mail says mail: Invalid permissions. If you change the ownership to the user then they can access their mail correctly. I've only recently gotten the mail working on the sgi so this problem can't really be blamed on the 3.3.2 upgrade although /bin/mail was last modified the day we upgraded. If the file already exists with the proper ownership there is no problem as mail is just appended but, if you read all of you mail the file is removed and the next time the sgi delivers mail it is has the wrong ownership. I couldn't find anything related listed in the mailer flags. The manual does say that if you change the permissions on the file it will not be removed to save the state of the permissions but this does not see like a valid answer to the problem. Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks Jamie.