[comp.mail.mh] MH and/or SU-Mac/IP Problem

david@UHCCUX.UHCC.HAWAII.EDU (David Lassner) (02/23/89)

I just got MH and popd (6.6) up up on a Sun (SunOS 3.2) and am
running the Mac/MH client (1.0).  It works more or less, but I'm
having problems with "Get All New Mail" apparently when I have more
than one message in /usr/spool...  I seem to either get all the
messages sucked in as one huge item of mail, or (most of the time)
Mac/MH just hangs.  Checking mailbox, sending mail, whois, Telnet &
FTP are all working fine.  MH on the Sun host works fine.  When MacMH
hangs, it is after asking for my user password and after what seems
to be a couple of local disk accesses on my Mac at the "Connecting to
Server..." prompt.

A couple of questions:
1) Any ideas on how I might have configured or installed anything
incorrectly?
2) Any way to get out of MacMH when it hangs, short of rebooting?

Thanks, David

maas@JESSICA.STANFORD.EDU (andy maas) (02/23/89)

>having problems with "Get All New Mail" apparently when I have more
>than one message in /usr/spool...  I seem to either get all the
>messages sucked in as one huge item of mail, or (most of the time)

read mh-6.6/uip/slocal.c about piping your mail to uip/slocal program
to put incoming mail into the mailbox with POP format.
This should have been documented in ADMIN.doc or something.

>Mac/MH just hangs.  Checking mailbox, sending mail, whois, Telnet &
>FTP are all working fine.  MH on the Sun host works fine.  When MacMH
>hangs, it is after asking for my user password and after what seems
>to be a couple of local disk accesses on my Mac at the "Connecting to
>Server..." prompt.

MacMH1.04 has known bug that it crashes on receiving certain kind of
msg. This has been fixed in the latest MacMH(1.07). I'll send you a
binhexed version of macmh1.07 in separate mail.

Andy

david@UHCCUX.UHCC.HAWAII.EDU (David Lassner) (02/23/89)

Thanks Andy!  The combination of piping incoming mail through slocal
and the newer MacMH did the trick.
david