fletcher@socrates.umd.edu (Charles Fletcher) (06/05/91)
This is probably *NOT* a bug, but it is some strange stuff. I recevied some NeXT mail on university account, so I transfered it over to my NeXT (using kermit) and mv it to /usr/spool/mail/charlie. I have done this before, so I expected no problems. Firing up Mail, the new mail did not appear. I checked /usr/spool/mail/charlie and there it was. So I set New Mail to manual, quit, and restarted. Sure enough, the mail icon fanned that there was new mail. But when I clicked on new mail, I got nothing. I started sending mail to myself and other users. Everyone but me would receive the mail without problems. I checked /usr/spool/mail/charlie (which I had now cleared out several times) and the mail was always there, it just wasn't getting to the Mail.app. Logging in and out and rebooting did no good. Finally, I checked the Mailbox/Active.mbox directory and found a file called Copy_of_Spoolfile. An emacs examination of the file showed that it contained my original NeXT mail message only with a Ctl-M at the end of each line. I deleted the contents of the file and all problems went away. Now for the strange part--I went to edit the original mail message (to remove the Ctl-M's I thought were there) but there were no extra Ctl characters, everything looked fine. So I again copied it into /usr/spool/mail/charlie and fired up Mail. There it was without problems. It is these kind of mystries that makes computing really fun. Anyone seen anything like this before or have *ANY* guess what might have happened? -Charlie fletcher@socrates.umd.edu