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- From: bjones@cambria.columbus.oh.us (Bill Jones)
- Subject: Re: SLS mail problem
- References: <BuGCJK.IyH@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Organization: Cambria Mail and News Gateway -- Columbus., OH
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 18:24:43 GMT
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- In order to have mail work correctly, you need to create a mail file for
- each of your users in the directory /usr/spool/mail. A simple
-
- touch <user-name>
-
- will do the trick. This file must be owned by the intended user with group
- set to be the same as the mail group (on my machine -- ``system''). Then
- `chmod 660 *' or some less restrictive mask. Then mail should work fine.
- (Be sure to allow read/write accress to the directory /usr/spool/mail for
- both root and the group. Sonce I am in the group system my permissions are
- set at 775. You may have to change yours to 777 to allow anyone -- meaning
- you as non-root -- to write there.)
-
- Bill
-
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