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- From: jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw
- Subject: Re: Mail.app acting very strangely
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.051757.14721@ccsun7.csie.nctu.edu.tw>
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- Organization: Computer Science & Information Engin., Chiao-Tung U, Taiwan, ROC
- References: <1992Nov13.155339.5452@cu23.crl.aecl.ca>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 05:17:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.155339.5452@cu23.crl.aecl.ca> gadallah@wu2.wl.aecl.ca
- (Larry Gadallah; B300-1-115; x2603) writes:
- > Help!
- >
- > I have uncovered a strange problem on my 2.1 system. I have a user
- > called "janet" who can send mail to other users, but cannot read
- > mail. I have done all the usual things like checking to see that
- > the spool file /usr/spool/mail/janet is readable. /usr/ucb/Mail
- > works just fine for this user. Sendmail logs a good transaction when
- > mail is send to user "janet" and the message actually appears in
- > /usr/spool/mail/janet. I got really frustrated and backed up all
- > of "janets" files, deleted the user "janet" and reinstalled the
- > user "janet".
-
- the same thing happened on my NeXT too.
- My solution is :
- cd ~/Janet/Mailboxes/Activebox
- ls -l *
- And see if there's anything weird (like the owner of some files are NOT Janet)
- Then recover it (say, chown files)
-
- This happened after we combined two NeXT's user home into one.
-
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-
- Yuan
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