From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 27 14:46:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA16977 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 14:46:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peanut.readington.com (peanut.readington.com [207.207.198.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA16780 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 14:45:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chrismar@peanut.readington.com) Received: from localhost (chrismar@localhost) by peanut.readington.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA11231; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 16:49:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chrismar@peanut.readington.com) Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 16:49:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Martino To: laszlo vagner cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail In-Reply-To: <199804271856.NAA02377@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Are you su'd to root when you try this? In my personal experiences if you are su'd you'll get what you are describing while trying to run mail programs such as elm and pine. Chris -- Chris Martino chrismar@readington.com On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, laszlo vagner wrote: > how come sometimes my mail can only be read using > "mail" while other times i can read it by using > "elm" ?? > > i get a message saying "you have mail" i run elm and there is no mail > although when i run mail the mail is there. > > please reply to kf7nn@airmail.net as my DNS is not working all the time > (their servers are dying). > > thanks George > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message