[27] in Charon Mail Lossage
Re: mail sent to you at barmar@charon.mit.edu
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Margolin)
Tue Oct 25 10:35:05 1994
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 94 10:34:27 EDT
To: charon-maintainers@mit.edu
Cc: mail-lossage@charon.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199410250742.DAA26557@charon.MIT.EDU> (root@charon.mit.edu)
From: Barry Margolin <barmar@nic.near.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 03:42:04 -0400
From: "Initializer.SysDaemon" <root@charon.mit.edu>
A daily script running from cron on charon.mit.edu found a new file
/usr/spool/mail/barmar which was presumably generated by someone
sending mail to you at barmar@charon.mit.edu.
If you expected to receive local mail on charon.mit.edu, no special
action is needed. You can just login to charon and read it, e.g.,
using the "standard mail program" /usr/ucb/mail.
If you expected that this mail would get automatically forwarded to
the MIT/Athena mailhub: you were, unfortunately, wrong. We can,
however, arrange for mail forwarding, either via a .forward file that
you can later edit yourself, or (preferably) by adding you to the list
sendmail reads when it decides whether all your mail is supposed to go
to athena.mit.edu. Please reply and let us know which you want. We can
also just mail you the mail-spool file if you aren't able to login to
charon to read it.
Please add me to the list that should be forwarded automatically. I don't
normally use Charon (I login about once a year just to see if it still
works), and Rick Kovalcik apparently assumed that my mail was forwarded
from there.
I can't create a .forward file because my home directory (/mit/barmar)
doesn't exist.
Barry Margolin
BBN Internet Services Corp.
barmar@near.net
