Re: MMDF, Smail and Elm Mailer

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From: Steve McConnel
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1989 22:15

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In article <5484@cps3xx.UUCP> las@frith.UUCP (Larry A. Shields) writes:
>I've tried running Mush with SCO UNIX 3.2 and mmdf but when I try to
>send mail submit returns a error message "Can't create file" . . .

We ran into a similar problem.  Here's the solution i found yesterday:  check
the file permissions under /usr/spool/mmdf/lock.  Here's what they should be:
	700	/usr/spool/mmdf/lock/
	777	/usr/spool/mmdf/lock/home/
	777	/usr/spool/mmdf/lock/home/tmp/
	777	/usr/spool/mmdf/lock/home/addr/
	777	/usr/spool/mmdf/lock/home/q.*/
	777	/usr/spool/mmdf/lock/home/msg/
This information is hidden in the User's Reference manual under QUEUE(F).
The directories under /usr/spool/mmdf/lock were also set to 700, possibly
by default when we installed the SCO UNIX 3.2 system.  I hope this helps --
no guarantee we had the same problem, but we did have the same symptom.
-- 
Stephen McConnel
Summer Institute of Linguistics  PHONE: 214-709-2418        
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road          UUCP: ...!{texbell|convex|pollux}!txsil!steve
Dallas, TX 75236              Internet: steve@txsil.lonestar.org

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From: steve@txsil.lonestar.org (Steve McConnel)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.elm,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: MMDF, Smail and Elm Mailer
Summary: check directory permissions under /usr/spool/mmdf/
Message-ID: <260@txsil.lonestar.org>
Date: 2 Dec 89 22:15:57 GMT
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