[4250] in Athena Bugs
vax 6.4R: msgchk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Palka)
Fri Feb 16 21:10:03 1990
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: cfyi@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, tompalka@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 90 21:09:23 EST
From: Tom Palka <tompalka@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
System name: copilot
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 6.4R
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
Use msgchk to check the maildrops at another host - eagle.mit.edu.
The command I used was the following:
> msgchk -host eagle.mit.edu -user mefl -norpop
msgchk: -ERR Wrong username supplied (tompalka vs. mefl)
What's wrong:
The command returns a message about invalid usernames, namely that
tompalka does not match mefl, and thus it cannot tell whether I have
mail waiting for me.
What should have happened:
Since I am using the -norpop flag, it should prompt me for a password,
which it didn't. As a matter of fact, it didn't even want to check
the maildrop on eagle.mit.edu at all.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
the only source I used was the man page for msgchk.
