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From: indra@brahms.amd.com (Indra Singhal)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: PC Lifeline Mail with SunOS 4.1
Message-ID: <1990Dec30.081350.1042@amd.com>
Date: 30 Dec 90 08:13:50 GMT
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gbass@zeus.dnet.ge.com (Jerry Bass) writes:
>I would appreciate some help.

>I am trying to get Sun's PC Lifeline mail program to play properly with a
>POP2 server on our Sparc 1+.  PC-NFS is running properly on a Zenith Z-386/20
>but I get errors from Lifeline when it trys to read mail from the server.

>When I launch Lifeline, it properly tells me that new mail exists on the mail-
>server and to press 'N' to retrieve it.  When I do this, it returns with
>error LL101W  "Unable to log into server."  As the message screen suggested,
>I verified that the passwords on the PC corresponds with the password on the
>Sun.  The manual gives no addition help.
[some lines deleted]

When we upgraded our machines to 4.1 our pop server died... I believe,
Sun changed the way the c compiler handles the 'return'
statement [ofcourse, without documenting it :-(]

Here is the diff indicating the changes we made to get the popdaemon to work:

========================================================================
1,7d0
< /* AMD changes by T.Z. Chiu July 15, 1990
<  * changed #define MAILDIR "/usr/spool/mail/" to "/var/spool/mail/"
<  * added return (0) to end of check_user function
<  * added return     to end of closeit    function
<  * added return (0) to end of outmsg     function
<  * added return (0) to end of net_out    function
<  */
167c160
< #define	MAILDIR "/var/spool/mail/"
---
> #define	MAILDIR "/usr/spool/mail/"
379c372
< 	} 
---
> 	}
384c377
< 	} 
---
> 	}
394d386
< 	return (0);
586d577
< 	return ;
621c612
< 	} return (0);
---
> 	}
630d620
< 	return (0);
========================================================================

Hope this helps.

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