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- Subject: Re: Mail Woes II
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.190237.9999@gateway.novell.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 19:02:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.164556.20434@newshost.lanl.gov>
- 092306@hyperion.lanl.gov (Jerry Weber D417 7-7410) writes:
- > Mail on my NeXT responds with :
- >
- > Fatal Error
- >
- > Invalid Mail Directory: /usr/spool/mail/user
- >
- >
- > I have checked all the permissions that I can think of and even tried
- logging
- > into a diffrent machine with the same result. Can anyone shed some light
- on
- > what might be the cause?
-
- Is your uid at your mailhost machine the same as the one on your station.
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- ls -l /usr/spool/mail/user shows owner to be your uid.
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- I hope this is it. I had a similar problem once.
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