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From: jeff@umbc3.umd.edu (Jeffrey Burgan)
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Subject: Re: Mail problem
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Date: Tue, 13-Oct-87 19:27:13 EDT
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In article <8553@felix.UUCP> chinson@medivax.UUCP (Chinson Yi) writes:
>Since we installed the version 2.0, the sendmail does not
>create new mail file ("/usr/spool/mail/XXX") for the new users.
>Any idea ?
>

The mail directory /usr/spool/mail must have mode 1777. 
(i.e. r,w,x for everyone plus the sticky bit needs to be set. This is 
discussed in the release notes. 

Hope this helps,

Jeffrey Burgan
jeff@umbc3.umd.edu
University of Maryland