[16068] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.2.8: Mail saved in local spool file
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Thu Jul 30 16:41:15 1998
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:41:13 EDT
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
System name: sidney.mit.edu
Type and version: SPARC/5 8.2.8 (with mkserv)
Display type: cgsix
What were you trying to do?
Read my email using GNUS
What's wrong:
movemail was complaining that it couldn't read
/var/mail/warlord, so I couldn't read my email.
What should have happened:
I should have been able to read my email off the PO servers,
without it going to local spool.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
Upon further investigation, I found that there was, indeed, a
local mail spool file, /var/mail/warlord, on this machine.
Unfortunately I couldn't read the file, as it is owned by user daemon
and group mail, is mode 660, and I don't have the root password. The
file is dated today (Jul 30) at 16:02. There are also mail spool
files for aurora, belville, and meep; both 'aurora' and 'meep' are
owned by the user, belville is owned by daemon. I doubt that this is
the intended behavior.
-derek
