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Date:      Mon, 16 Nov 1998 11:34:30 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
To:        tony@dell.com (Tony Overfield)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mail -u <user>
Message-ID:  <199811160934.LAA00413@ceia.nordier.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19981116025037.03461374@bugs.us.dell.com> from Tony Overfield at "Nov 16, 98 02:50:37 am"

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Tony Overfield wrote:
> 
> Is there some trick for getting "mail -u" to work with -current?
> 
> Logged in as "root" and running "mail -u tony" gets this 
> (paraphrased and shortened):
> 
> [...]
> mail   NAMI  "/var/mail/root"
> mail   RET   open -1 errno 2 No such file or directory
> mail   CALL  write(0x2, "No mail for tony\n", 0x11)
> [...]
> 
> "mail -f /var/mail/tony" works correctly on -current and 
> "mail -u tony" works on my -stable system.
> 
> I apologize if I'm sending to the wrong list.  Please advise.

It's a reported bug PR 8665.  A workaround is to unsetenv MAIL.

-- 
Robert Nordier

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