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From: enf1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Eric Fischer)
Subject: Re: "mail" suddenly...
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Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 18:23:43 GMT
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chrisriley@aol.com (ChrisRiley) writes,
>Well, now when you type "mail" you get "No mail for XXX".  If you type
>"mail -f /usr/spool/mail/XXX" things work fine, but "mail" alone doesn't
>work.

Do you have the $MAIL environmental variable set?  If so, mail looks
there instead of /usr/spool/mail/whatever to find your mailbox.

Eric
enf1@ellis.uchicago.edu