🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Nov16.051757.14721@ccsun7.csie.nctu.edu.tw>  
jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw writes:
> 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.
> 
> --
> 
> Yuan
> +----------------------------------------------------------+
> | Internet Address         : jypai@csie.nctu.edu.tw        |
> | NeXT mail GLADLY accepted: jypai@ccnext.csie.nctu.edu.tw |
> +----------------------------------------------------------+


Another thing you may wish to try is.

1. Quit Mail.app
2. cd ~/Janet/Mailboxes/Active.mbox
3. rm table_of_contents

This file sometimes gets corrupted and can cause major problems.  If you  
remove it, it will be recreated the next time you launch Mail.app.  And,  
as has already been suggested, be sure the janet has read and write access  
to the directories Mailboxex and Active.mbox and all files inside of  
there.

--
 -Randy Nelson
  Workstation Support Manager
  Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
  Email: Randy.Nelson@Rose-Hulman.Edu