drebnord@rodan.acs.syr.edu (David A. Rebnord) (05/06/91)
I am having a problem receiving mail on my station (running 2.0). I can receive mail only from a terminal window by typing 'mail'. I cannot, however, use the NeXT mail application to receive mail. The contents of my /usr/spool/mail/username file are not being copied into my Active.mbox. I have checked the permissions for the relevant files and directories and checked both Preferences panels in Mail and everything looks OK. My station is connected to a Non-NetInfo network, and my sendmail.cf is simply a symbolic link to sendmail.mailhost.cf, but I do not believe the problem is with sendmail, since as I stated above my mail is received just fine in my /usr/spool/mail/username file. Any ideas or suggestions on what the problem might be would be appreciated. Dave Rebnord Department of Mathematics Syracuse University
scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) (05/07/91)
In article <1991May6.152001.22612@rodan.acs.syr.edu> drebnord@rodan.acs.syr.edu (David A. Rebnord) writes:
I am having a problem receiving mail on my station (running 2.0).
I can receive mail only from a terminal window by typing 'mail'.
I cannot, however, use the NeXT mail application to receive mail.
The contents of my /usr/spool/mail/username file are not being copied into
my Active.mbox. I have checked the permissions for the relevant files and
directories and checked both Preferences panels in Mail and everything
looks OK. My station is connected to a Non-NetInfo network, and my
sendmail.cf is simply a symbolic link to sendmail.mailhost.cf, but I do not
believe the problem is with sendmail, since as I stated above my mail
is received just fine in my /usr/spool/mail/username file.
This may or may not be it - but, since I once had a problem with this,
anyone could [ :-) ].
The problem I was having was that it wouldn't load mail into Mail.app.
One thing you do not state is whether it ever did work - in my case, it
had earlier, but stopped for some reason.
The problem I had was that some of the files that are created while the
program is copying the mbox from /usr/spool/mail were not correctly
deleted. I went in and deleted them, and things worked. The names
were something like .incoming_crud, or something which would lead you
to believe that 'this is the temporary file where your mbox resides
while we mess with it'.
This probably won't help. But, you never know . . .
Later,
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scott hess scott@gac.edu
Independent NeXT Developer GAC Undergrad <almost out!>
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