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- From: manaster@yu1.yu.edu (Chaim Manaster)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: problem with Elm setup.
- Message-ID: <1273@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 05:06:00 GMT
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- Organization: Yeshiva University
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- I recently gained access to a unix system and the Internet and mail
- along with that, so I am a neophyte in this regard. I started up my
- learning curve wiht mail using the standard mail program on this
- system (IBM AIX 3.2 on a 6000 proccessor). Everything went well.
- Then I heard about Elm and chose to move to it. That's when the
- problem's began (I am sure due to my ignorance, not any real bug in
- Elm). When I brought Elm up as my mail reader, I just selected all
- the defaults (I think?) and it turns out that may have been a
- mistake. Two problems seem to have occurred. The first and the
- worst was that somehow Elm changes the group of my mail slot in
- /mail/manaster and /spool/mail/manaster (my name is manaster) from
- the group called "mail" to the group that I belong to, thus the
- system can no longer write to my mail box and returns all my mail
- to sender!! I got the system administrator to change back the group
- ownership of the mail files and sure enough when I used the
- standard mail system all worked well again. Then when I tried to
- use Elm again, it once again switched the group attributes back
- again from "mail" to my group name!
-
- No one seems to know what is causing this. Any ideas of what I
- should do? It is probably something trivial (Ihope).
-
- The second thing is that Elm seems not to want to use my standard
- mbox file to save the received mail, rahter it insists on using a
- file it created called "received". Why? I would like to use mbox,
- so that I could switch back and forth between Elm and mail, if I
- choose.
-
- Unfortunately the Elm docs are not yet up on our system.
-
- Thanks for the help.
-
- Henry Manaster.
-
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- Henry Manaster * EMail: manaster@yu1.yu.edu
- Brooklyn, NY *
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- Disclaimer: The above is not necessarily MY opinion nor that
- of anyone else :-) ????!
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