Subject: Re: /var/mail problem.

From: [email-masked] (Richard J Kuhns)
Date: 29 Sep 93 11:52:23

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked]. (Keith Christopher) writes:

   ANyone have this problem :

   If a user's mailbox does not exist in /var/mail and I CC them using mail, their mailbox file will be created, however it will be owned by me !!

   e.g.
   where me is me and you is the user with no mailbox file.

   mail me
   CC:you
   <message<
   .

   ls -l /var/mail/you

   rw-rw---- 1 me mail 1024 Sep 28 12:56 you

   it's owned by me !!!

   Any ideas ?

Yes -- get patch 101156.

The problem is actually a little more generic than you described; when send
mail locally to 2 or more people WHO DON'T ALREADY HAVE MAILBOXES, the
first mailbox is created correctly; the remainder are owned by the sender.

Rich Kuhns	{uunet, gator}!sawmill!rjk