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I recently gained access to a unix system and the Internet and mail
along with that, so I am a neophyte in this regard. I started up my
learning curve wiht mail using the standard mail program on this
system (IBM AIX 3.2 on a 6000 proccessor). Everything went well.
Then I heard about Elm and chose to move  to it. That's when the
problem's began (I am sure due to my ignorance, not any real bug in
Elm). When I brought Elm up as my mail reader, I just selected all
the defaults (I think?) and it turns out that may have been a
mistake. Two problems seem to have occurred. The first and the
worst was that somehow Elm changes the group of my mail slot in
/mail/manaster and /spool/mail/manaster (my name is manaster) from
the group called "mail" to the group that I belong to, thus the
system can no longer write to my mail box and returns all my mail
to sender!! I got the system administrator to change back the group
ownership of the mail files and sure enough when I used the
standard mail system all worked well again. Then when I tried to
use Elm again, it once again switched the group attributes back
again from "mail" to my group name!

No one seems to know what is causing this. Any ideas of what I
should do? It is probably something trivial (Ihope).

The second thing is that Elm seems not to want to use my standard
mbox file to save the received mail, rahter it insists on using a
file it created called "received". Why? I would like to use mbox,
so that I could switch back and forth between Elm and mail, if I
choose.

Unfortunately the Elm docs are not yet up on our system.

Thanks for the help.

Henry Manaster.

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