email going to wrong spool directory

George Robbins grr at cbmvax.commodore.com
Sun Aug 19 15:59:26 AEST 1990


In article <42570 at prls.UUCP> gordon at prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers) writes:
> 
>         I don't remember changing anything other than adding a couple
>    of new connections, but uucp is no longer routing incoming mail to
>    the appropriate spool directory (/usr/spool/mail) .
> 
>         Incoming mail messages are now going to
>             /usr/spool/uucpublic/$USER/D.$REMOTExxxxx
>         Outgoing is OK.
> 
>        Ideas anyone ?

Pretty spooky - I'd check that the path line in USERFILE is still what
you think it is, and also that whatever "rmail" is found first along that
path is the standard Ultrix one.  strings(1) might reveal the uucppublic
literal..
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