[comp.sys.sgi] How to set up mail

macferrin@slsvax.harvard.edu (Kurtis MacFerrin) (06/16/90)

Can someone tell me how to properly setup the mail utility in IRIX 3.2.1? mail
(i.e., mail_att) aborts with the error "mailfile does not begin with a 'From'
line", which is true--it begins with a Date line when you send mail to another
user using the mail command!

Mail (i.e., mail_bsd) says that the mailfile has 0 messages when in fact it
has several--this occurs even when the message was sent using Mail. Currently
we must type more /usr/mail/username to read our mail.

Thanks for any suggestions.