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Date:      Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:30:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: misc/14976: 'mail -u' works incorectly
Message-ID:  <199911182330.PAA57685@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR misc/14976; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net>
To: dima@server.ru
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/14976: 'mail -u' works incorectly
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:26:01 -0800

 On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 07:31:16AM -0800, dima@server.ru wrote:
 > 
 > 'mail -u user1' issued by user2 opens mailbox of user2 - not of user1 as stated by man
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > # mail
 > No mail for root
 > # adduser user1
 > ...
 > # echo 'Hello!' | mail -s 'test' user1
 > # ls -l /var/mail/user1
 > -rw------- 1 user1 users 347 Nov 18 18:28 /var/mail/user1
 > # mail -u user1
 > No mail for user1
 > # mail -f /var/mail/user1
 > Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help
 > "/var/mail/user1": 1 message 1 new
 
 FWIW, this is working for me.
 
 # echo 'Hello!' | mail -s 'test' cpiazza 
 # mail -u cpiazza
 [...]
 >N 20 root@norn.ca.eu.org   Thu Nov 18 15:24  13/414   "test"
 & q
 Held 20 messages in /var/mail/cpiazza
 
 -Chris
 -- 
 cpiazza@home.net   cpiazza@FreeBSD.org
         Abbotsford, BC, Canada
 


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