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From: bennett@sgi.com (Jim Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: mailbox
Keywords: mailbox....doesnt work?
Message-ID: <1990Sep24.161507.25637@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 24 Sep 90 16:15:07 GMT
References: <501@texhrc.UUCP>
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In article <501@texhrc.UUCP> mjz@texhrc.UUCP (Michael Zeitlin) writes:
>
>
>   i have 3.3 running on my 4D-25 personal iris and can't seem
>   to get mailbox to work....i get the icon (and the nice flag going up)
>   but my wsh scrolls continuously the following message:
>
>    mailbox: Bad file number
>    mailbox: Bad file number
>    mailbox: Bad file number
>    mailbox: Bad file number
>    mailbox: Bad file number
>    mailbox: Bad file number
>
>   any ideas what's happening??

Mailbox prints this message when it can't connect to fam.  You should
check if famd is running.

>   i can use mail....to get to and from my sun network and the outside
>    world, but cant seem to get the iris mail to work locally...
>    i.e.  i can only read my mail on other systems ...
>
>    michael Zeitlin....
>
>
>    p.s. i've only now tried to use mail on 3.3...

One of the network types should answer this one.  You could try "Mail -v",
to see where the mail is going.

Jim Bennett				(bennett@esd.sgi.com)