SUMMARY: mail; and a further question

From: Rasana Atreya (Rasana.Atreya@library.ucsf.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 09 1996 - 11:11:27 CDT


Hi!

Thanks a lot to:

From: someone at Harvard (I deleted the mail by mistake..)
From: "William C. Devine, II" <william@devine.net>
From: Thomas Quinot <thomas@CUIVRE.FDN.FR>
From: Jeff Fisher <jeff@kcrg.com>
From: Fernando Frota Redigolo <fernando@caju.larc.usp.br>
From: smca@mail.wincom.net (Shaun McArthur)
From: "K.Arun" <arun@adithya.ncb.ernet.in>

I made a softlink from /var/mail to /usr/spool/mail
(ln -s /var/mail /usr/spool/mail)

Now I have another question. The mail that goes to /var/mail is now getting
appended to mail in /usr/spool/mail some of the time. Othertimes, the headers
are all getting messed up. What's happenning?

My original post follows.

Thanks much,
Rasana

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Hi Gurus,

How do I get all my mail to go to /usr/spool/mail instead of /usr/spool/mail
_and_ /var/mail?

Our setup is that we have a mail hub (SunOS 4.1.3_U) and clients which are
mostly Solaris 2.5.

When I get a mail to me@mailhub, it goes to /usr/spool/mail and I can read
it using mail handler (MH mail) but not /bin/mail.

On the other hand, I have programs which are supposed to send me email. They
send email to me@client. These go to /var/mail so I have to use /bin/mail to
read them. MH mail mail does not work here.

I'd like to direct all my mail to /usr/spool/mail. I tried sendmail's various
rulesets, tried to put the 2 directories in my .cshrc, nothing helps. And oh,
I don't know what I screwed up. Now /bin/mail is beginning to say no mail all
the time even though /var/mail/me shows that I do have mail.

Please HELP.

Thanks! ;(
Rasana

My sendmail.cf

### sendmail Local version: 5.67a8/IDA-1.5 Sendmail Mailer to forward all mail to

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