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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Missing mail with NextStep 2.0
Keywords: NextStep 2.0, Mail.app
Message-ID: <390@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 15 Jan 91 23:41:50 GMT
References: <1991Jan12.162503.21789@ee.ualberta.ca>
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA
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In article <1991Jan12.162503.21789@ee.ualberta.ca> eric@ee.ualberta.ca (Eric Norum) writes:
>		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.

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

There's one thing you might check.  Mail under 2.0 has a preference (under
"Expert") that lets you specify what spool directory you want to read
your mail from.  It's possible that this preference got changed by a
curious user who did not realize its implications.

The value of this preference should be "/usr/spool/mail" in your scenario.

Hope that helps.

Glenn
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