Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!gacvx2.gac.edu!scott From: scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Problem Receiving Mail with NeXT Mail Message-ID: Date: 7 May 91 03:41:19 GMT References: <1991May6.152001.22612@rodan.acs.syr.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College Lines: 33 Nntp-Posting-Host: nic.gac.edu In-reply-to: drebnord@rodan.acs.syr.edu's message of 6 May 91 15:20:01 GMTLines: 33 In article <1991May6.152001.22612@rodan.acs.syr.edu> drebnord@rodan.acs.syr.edu (David A. Rebnord) writes: I am having a problem receiving mail on my station (running 2.0). I can receive mail only from a terminal window by typing 'mail'. I cannot, however, use the NeXT mail application to receive mail. The contents of my /usr/spool/mail/username file are not being copied into my Active.mbox. I have checked the permissions for the relevant files and directories and checked both Preferences panels in Mail and everything looks OK. My station is connected to a Non-NetInfo network, and my sendmail.cf is simply a symbolic link to sendmail.mailhost.cf, but I do not believe the problem is with sendmail, since as I stated above my mail is received just fine in my /usr/spool/mail/username file. This may or may not be it - but, since I once had a problem with this, anyone could [ :-) ]. The problem I was having was that it wouldn't load mail into Mail.app. One thing you do not state is whether it ever did work - in my case, it had earlier, but stopped for some reason. The problem I had was that some of the files that are created while the program is copying the mbox from /usr/spool/mail were not correctly deleted. I went in and deleted them, and things worked. The names were something like .incoming_crud, or something which would lead you to believe that 'this is the temporary file where your mbox resides while we mess with it'. This probably won't help. But, you never know . . . Later, -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer GAC Undergrad