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- From: davidf@golem.uucp (David J. Fiander)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,biz.sco.general
- Subject: Re: Help with MMDF
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.213233.10066@golem.uucp>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 21:32:33 GMT
- References: <1992Sep10.124958.783@zeos.com>
- Lines: 42
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- According to kgermann@zeos.com (Ken Germann):
- >Here is the message :
- >
- >From mmdf Thu Sep 10 07:25:40 1992
- >Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 7:25:40 CDT
- >From: MMDF Mail System <mmdf@zeos.com>
- >Subject: Mailbox format error
- >To: kgermann
- >
- >Status: R
- >
- >Your mailbox was not in the expected format, it was in the format:
- >
- >old
- >
- >Your mail will be delivered, but please have your System Administrator
- >convert your mailbox, or arrange to have mail delivered in another format.
-
- You built and installed MUSH and Elm to recognise MMDF-style
- mailboxes, and then installed a different mail system. The new
- mail system (smail) writes mailboxes in a different format, so
- both Elm and MUSH complained. "yucky" mail recognises both
- formats, so it worked fine.
-
- Your problems were compounded by the fact that you screwed up
- either the installation of smail, or the removal of MMDF. The
- message you see above is generated by the MMDF local delivery
- channel when it notices that your mailbox is not in the MMDF
- format. Since "yucky" mail still works, I would guess that the
- problem is that you didn't delete it. Even if no human uses
- /usr/bin/mail (aka /bin/mail), lots of programs do (like cron,
- calendar, the news subsystem, etc.).
-
- You can't mix mail systems. Go into custom and _remove_ MMDF,
- then install smail. Make sure you do this in single user mode.
-
- Although, _I_ personally would rather run MMDF and get support
- than compile smail, and have to worry about the source. (And I
- am listed in the credits for smail 3.1.26, so this isn't just
- sour grapes.)
-
- - David
-