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From: edward@twg.com (Edward C. Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: MMDF, Smail and Elm Mailer
Summary: checkup
Message-ID: <71@gollum.twg.com>
Date: 7 Dec 89 19:47:40 GMT
References: <5484@cps3xx.UUCP> <260@txsil.lonestar.org>
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Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA
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eply-To: edward@twg.com (Edward C. Bennett)

In article <260@txsil.lonestar.org> steve@txsil.lonestar.org (Steve McConnel) writes:
>In article <5484@cps3xx.UUCP> las@frith.UUCP (Larry A. Shields) writes:
>>I've tried running Mush with SCO UNIX 3.2 and mmdf but when I try to
>>send mail submit returns a error message "Can't create file" . . .
>
>We ran into a similar problem.  Here's the solution i found yesterday:  check
>the file permissions under /usr/spool/mmdf/lock.

MMDF has a tool called "checkup" that will examine your configuration
and report obvious problems.

MMDF also has a tool called "setup" that will create all the queue/log/etc.
directories for you.
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Edward C. Bennett - The other MMDF guy			edward@twg.com
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