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From: karl@mstar.UUCP (Karl Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Forwarding Mail
Message-ID: <988@mstar.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 89 20:54:04 GMT
References: <494@fallst.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@mstar.UUCP (Karl Fox)
Organization: Morning Star Technologies, Columbus, Ohio
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In article <494@fallst.UUCP> tkevans@fallst.UUCP (Tim Evans) writes:
>My Microport Sys V/AT's mail forwarding is acting a bit strangely.
...
>What's strange is that uucp's mailbox (containing the same forwarding
>instructions) keeps disappearing.

Check your /usr/lib/uucp/uudemon.clean (and maybe other daemons, as
well).  This is what I had to do to fix the same problem with my HDB
uucp:

*** OLDuudemon.clean	Sun Jan  1 22:26:51 1989
--- uudemon.clean	Sun Jan  1 22:27:32 1989
***************
*** 178,182
  #
  #	Dispose of mail to uucp and nuucp
  #
! rm -f $MAILDIR/uucp $MAILDIR/nuucp $TMP
  

--- 178,182 -----
  #
  #	Dispose of mail to uucp and nuucp
  #
! # rm -f $MAILDIR/uucp $MAILDIR/nuucp $TMP
  
-- 
Karl Fox, Morning Star Technologies
osu-cis!mstar!karl or osu-cis!mstar!karl@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu