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From: root@bilanc.UUCP (Super user)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Mail error under UUCP
Message-ID: <28@bilanc.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 88 03:29:53 GMT
References: <725@yabbie.rmit.oz>
Organization: Foothills Software, Inc.
Lines: 28
Keywords: XENIX, UUCP, blackhole for mail
Summary: L.cmds

In article <725@yabbie.rmit.oz>, radjg@yabbie.rmit.oz (Jordan Green) writes:
> 
> I have setup the uucp subsystem and it seems to be operating almost faultlessly
> except for one small and annoying bug.  Whenever I am sent mail from another
> system it arrives here on gremlin (my machinename) and disappears into a black
> hole never to resurface. Attached is a copy of the LOGFILE and clearly it is a
> permission problem but, who for? I can successfully send mail to merlin (the 
> other machine in this example) but theirs is lost. I tried -x9 on uucico but
> as far as I can understand the output it gives no more information than the
> LOGFILE.
> 
> root merlin (3/9-9:57) jordan XQT DENIED (rmail jordan )
> root merlin (3/9-9:57) david XQT DENIED (rmail root )

Try adding an entry to /usr/lib/uucp/L.cmds with 'rmail' in it.

Rich
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