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From: tkevans@fallst.UUCP (Tim Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.unix.microport
Subject: Forwarding Mail
Message-ID: <494@fallst.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 89 02:50:07 GMT
Organization: Tim Evans, Fallston, MD
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My Microport Sys V/AT's mail forwarding is acting a bit strangely.  Since
I'm the sysadm (and only user) of my system, for convenience sake I have
all the standard admin logins' mail forwarded to my own login.  Thus, root's,
croot's, adm's (and the rest's) mailboxes contain "Forward to mylogin".
All works well, except for uucp's mail.

What's strange is that uucp's mailbox (containing the same forwarding
instructions) keeps disappearing.  It'll forward the mail to me ONE DAY,
then stop.  The next time mail is generated, it gets sent to uucp 
(generally as output from uucp's administrative demons), it doesn't
get forwarded.  (I'm running the uPort-distributed HDB UUCP.)

Even stranger, the mail from the demons doesn't pile up over several
days, as it ought to; each new day's worth appears to overwrite the
mailbox file--and there's never more than one day's worth there.

I've even gone so far as removing write permissions from that mailbox
file.  This has the same results:  the mail is forwarded the first
day, then the mailbox is gone, then the mail is held for uucp himself, 
but only for a day.

Any ideas?  
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Tim Evans  2201 Brookhaven Court, Fallston, MD  21047   (301) 965-3286