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#! rnews 1553 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!news.uh.edu!lurch.sccsi.com!news.sccsi.com!usenet From: Oliver Soell <oliver@infohwy.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.mail.elm Subject: elm problems Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 09:57:48 -0600 Organization: Info-Highway International, Inc. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <30B9DFFC.4107@infohwy.com> Reply-To: oliver@infohwy.com NNTP-Posting-Host: guinness.infohwy.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b2 (Macintosh; I; 68K) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1539 comp.mail.elm:17977 I recently upgraded to version 2.0.1 from 1.1 of BSDI, and elm is giving me problems. I was using elm under the old version, and when I moved all my files over to the new version (on a new box as well), my mail still worked like a charm, but when I add a new user who wants to use elm, it gets tricky. When I run elm as a newly created user, it gives a message at the bottom of the screen saying "Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #0" and the number of attempts goes up ad infinitum. I've checked all the permissions on the spool directory, the spool file itself, and it all seems to be hunky dory. Anyone have any idea what this problem might be a product of? Thanks, and please email directly as well as to the group, Oliver Soell Info-Highway International Inc. System Adminstrator oliver@infohwy.com