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In article <1992Nov13.155339.5452@cu23.crl.aecl.ca> gadallah@wu2.wl.aecl.ca  
(Larry Gadallah; B300-1-115; x2603) writes:
> Help!
> 
> I have uncovered a strange problem on my 2.1 system. I have a user
> called "janet" who can send mail to other users, but cannot read
> mail. I have done all the usual things like checking to see that
> the spool file /usr/spool/mail/janet is readable. /usr/ucb/Mail
> works just fine for this user. Sendmail logs a good transaction when
> mail is send to user "janet" and the message actually appears in
> /usr/spool/mail/janet. I got really frustrated and backed up all
> of "janets" files, deleted the user "janet" and reinstalled the
> user "janet".

the same thing happened on my NeXT too.
My solution is :
cd ~/Janet/Mailboxes/Activebox
ls -l *
And see if there's anything weird (like the owner of some files are NOT Janet)
Then recover it (say, chown files)

This happened after we combined two NeXT's user home into one.

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