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From: eric@ee.ualberta.ca (Eric Norum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Missing mail with NextStep 2.0
Keywords: NextStep 2.0, Mail.app
Message-ID: <1991Jan12.162503.21789@ee.ualberta.ca>
Date: 12 Jan 91 16:25:03 GMT
Sender: news@ee.ualberta.ca
Reply-To: eric@ee.ualberta.ca (Eric Norum)
Organization: University of Alberta Electrical Engineering
Lines: 60

I've been having problems with mail on my 68030 Cube since I upgraded to
NextStep 2.0.  For one user (and one user only) the mail icon shows
letters in the envelope, but when the Active mailbox is opened there's
nothing there.  Running the mail program from a Terminal window shows
that the mail is in /usr/spool/mail, it's just the Mail app that isn't
copying it to the mailbox.

I read the on-line documentation about these symptoms, but as far as I
can see everything is set up properly.  (i.e. I removed and recreated
the Active.mbox as suggested by the documentation)

Here's everything that I've checked.

======================================================
norum> ls -lR .mailrc Mailboxes /usr/spool/mail
-rw-r--r--  1 barbara       19 Sep  5  1989 .mailrc

/usr/spool/mail:
total 1
-rw-------  1 barbara      304 Jan 12 07:39 barbara
-rw-------  1 carl           0 Nov 13 18:27 carl
-rw-------  1 eric           0 Jan 12 07:41 eric
-rw-------  1 stephen        0 Oct 30 18:02 stephen

Mailboxes:
total 1
drwxr-xr-x  2 barbara     1024 Jan 12 07:46 Active.mbox/

Mailboxes/Active.mbox:
total 1
-rw-r--r--  1 barbara        0 Jan 12 07:45 mbox
-rw-r--r--  1 barbara       32 Jan 12 07:45 table_of_contents 
norum>
norum> cat /usr/spool/mail/barbara
From barbara Sat Jan 12 07:39:06 1991
Return-Path: <barbara>
Received: by  norum  (NeXT-1.0 (From Sendmail 5.52)/NeXT-2.0)
        id AA00344; Sat, 12 Jan 91 07:39:04 MST
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 91 07:39:04 MST
From: barbara (Barbara Norum)
Message-Id: <9101121439.AA00344@ norum >
To: barbara
Subject: what

happened

norum> cat .mailrc
set askcc
set hold
norum> 
============================================================

Any ideas what's going on here?  
The mail application works properly for *all* other users on this machine.

-- 
Eric Norum
Dept. of Electrical Engineering      eric@ee.ualberta.ca
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Canada.                   phone: (403) 492-4626