Re: [ILUG] Received mail for a user who shows no mail?

From: Kevin Dunleavy (kdunleavy at domain orbism.com)
Date: Wed 28 Apr 1999 - 11:59:28 IST

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Owen Kelly wrote:
> A user on my box has a prompt when he logs in "You have
new mail", and
> on typing 'mail', gets "You have no mail". Im at a loss ...
any ideas?

I get this at work. When I'm logged into a Unix box through
ReflectionX and mail arrives I get the "You've got mail"
message. If run "mail", it says "No Mail".

I think the reason for this is that the mail is shoved into a
POP box as soon as it gets to my account. (I collect it from
there through Netscape/Pegasus/whatever on my NT
machine. I haven't tried collecting it from Netscape under
Unix - I'm not a masochist!)

Subject to correction,
Kevin

Kevin Dunleavy
ORBISM Ltd
http://www.orbism.com

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