Getting stuck in ~/Mailbox?

Article View: comp.soft-sys.andrew

Article #2146

Back to comp.soft-sys.andrew Previous Next

#2146

From: wolf
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1990 19:13

22 lines
1203 bytes

I am at the end of my limited wisdom.  I have successfully built Andrew from
the X11R4 tape and applied some patches.  Everything seems to work except
the reading of messages.  I can post messages.  The mail gets placed into
/usr/spool/mail/<mylogin>.  However when I try to read my mail, "messages"
gets stuck!
It successfully copies the newly arrived mail from /usr/spool/mail
into ~/Mailbox but then never returns.
	"Looking for new mail in ~/Mailbox"
remains at the bottom of the "messages" window  and the cursor is stuck
in the "hour-glass" form.

Help!  Has anyone encountered this problem before?  I'm a rank amateur when
it comes to either Andrew or the mail delivery procedure.

Thanks in advance for ANY help,

Tom
(e-mail:  wolf@howdy.att.com	   or		twolf@homxa.att.com)


P.S.  I'm running on a Sun SparcStation-1 running SunOS4.03

Technical Details

Message-ID: <Added.YZuoCEm00UkTQU5k8w@andrew.cmu.edu>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!howdy.att.com!wolf

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!howdy.att.com!wolf
From: wolf@howdy.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Getting stuck in ~/Mailbox?
Message-ID: <Added.YZuoCEm00UkTQU5k8w@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 90 19:13:00 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 22