From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 20 14:13:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.tseinc.com (gatekeeper.tseinc.com [209.83.134.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0019B14C4B for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 14:13:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlwest@tseinc.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by gatekeeper.tseinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA03637 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:13:32 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jlwest@tseinc.com) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.tseinc.com: nobody set sender to using -f Received: from ws2.tse.com(192.168.2.212) by gatekeeper.tseinc.com via smap (V2.1) id xma003626; Wed, 20 Oct 99 16:12:43 -0500 Message-ID: <000d01bf1b42$789845e0$d402a8c0@tse.com> From: "Jay West" To: Subject: Is the "mail -u" option broken under 3.3 Release? Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 16:31:28 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On a freshly installed 3.3R machine, I create a user called mytest From root, I do a "mail mytest". I then check /var/mail and see the mytest mail file is there waiting. If I then do a "mail -u mytest", it says there is no mail for the user. But, if I log into the machine as mytest it says I have mail and the mail command retrieves it. Is this brokenness, a "feature", or operator error???? In all responses, please cc me at jlwest@tseinc.com as I'm not currently subscribed to the list. Thanks in advance! Jay West To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message