> How do I fix the
>
> Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #3
>
> problem? Permissions of /usr/spool/mail _appear_
> to be correct, although every day I found many
> new permission problems with my system here.
> /tmp loses proper permissions every second day or so. :-(
> On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> > How do I fix the
> > Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #3
>
> Sounds like mail is being delivered, so the mailbox is locked against elm
> reading it until the delivery is complete.
> Does it eventually read the mailbox
On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> How do I fix the
>
> Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #3
Sounds like mail is being delivered, so the mailbox is locked against elm
reading it until the delivery is complete.
Does it eventually read the mailbox ok?
>
> pro
How do I fix the
Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #3
problem? Permissions of /usr/spool/mail _appear_
to be correct, although every day I found many
new permission problems with my system here.
/tmp loses proper permissions every second day or so. :-(
hamish
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> On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote:
>
> > I don't know why when I run elm, it displays the following message then
> > quit.
> >
> > Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #0
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> > Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #7
> >
> > G
On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote:
> I don't know why when I run elm, it displays the following message then
> quit.
>
> Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #0
> Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #1
> Waiting to read mailbox while mail
> Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #0
> Giving up after 7 iterations.
> Please try to read your mail again in a few minutes.
>
> However, I can use mailx to read my mail.
Please check the file ownership of your mail-folder in
/var/spool/mail/
and also of the file
Erik van der Meulen wrote:
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> At 08:19 PM 10/29/96 +1100, Lawrence Chim wrote:
>
> >I don't know why when I run elm, it displays the following message then
> >quit.
> >
> >Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #0
> >
>
> That used
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At 08:19 PM 10/29/96 +1100, Lawrence Chim wrote:
>I don't know why when I run elm, it displays the following message then
>quit.
>
>Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #0
>
That used to occur from a bug in an old Slackware release. Thi
I don't know why when I run elm, it displays the following message then
quit.
Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #0
Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #1
Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #2
Waiting to read mailbox w
On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Arrigo Triulzi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we have the Elm package installed and people are unable to use
> it for sending e-mail which always fails with a bad call:
>
> sh: -oi not found
>
> I have the impression that it is trying to tag the -oi flag to
> the sendmail
> Hello,
>
> we have the Elm package installed and people are unable to use
> it for sending e-mail which always fails with a bad call:
>
> sh: -oi not found
>
> I have the impression that it is trying to tag the -oi flag to
> the sendmail command but never actually adds the sendmail
Hello,
we have the Elm package installed and people are unable to use
it for sending e-mail which always fails with a bad call:
sh: -oi not found
I have the impression that it is trying to tag the -oi flag to
the sendmail command but never actually adds the sendmail in
front. Are
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