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[carla@ATHENA.MIT.EDU: vax 7.1H: new users not having ~/Mail, msgchk looks for it]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 9 08:16:41 1991
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 91 08:16:26 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: rel-eng@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bug-moira@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Is there any reason not to create the Mail directory and inbox folders
as part of the standard new user setup?
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Return-Path: carla@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: vax 7.1H: new users not having ~/Mail, msgchk looks for it
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 90 16:36:45 EDT
From: Carla Fermann <carla@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
System name: MICKEY-MOUSE
Type and version: MVAX-II 7.1H
Display type: QVSS
Hi! When new users login, they get a message in their console window
saying that ~/Mail does not exist, and asking them if they want to
create it. Since it's in the console window, though, they can't reply.
(I believe that it's msgchk that's looking for the Mail directory.)
Since msgchk isn't working, they don't know they have mail, so they
don't ever type 'inc'. (If they did do 'inc', it would ask them if it
should create the proper directories.)
Couldn't we give new users a Mail directory automatically, just like
we give them dotfiles?
Thanks!
Carla
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