Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!burden!sylvain From: sylvain@burden (Sylvain Langlois) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk Subject: Re: problems splitting up /usr/spool/mail/* Message-ID: <829.623327524@burden> Date: 2 Oct 89 10:32:04 GMT References: <8909291833.AA03048@jessica.Stanford.EDU> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 28 > POP server expect the mailbox in POP format (a POP defined delimiter > between msgs is required) so it can break up msgs in> mailbox. To do > this, MH has a program (slocal) that will add delimiter to every msg. > You have to pipe incoming msg through slocal by creating .forward file > in the user home directory. Look mh/uip/slocal.c for detail. I'm not using POP locally, so I suspect the bug (if any) is somewhere else. However I've noticed that slocal coming with MH-6.5 may not work correctly: I've tried to use MH to behave like the "vacation" from BSD, using some temporary folders, and I cannot get it working. Everything seems to show that "slocal" is not processing my stuff the way I want it to do. I'm suspecting slocal but this may be due also to some mistake in the MH macros I wrote (simple shell-scripts). Since I'm pretty overloaded at the moment I cannot track bugs any further. I wish I had time to do it! > By the way MH6.6 is available from louie.udel.edu:portal/mh-6.6.tar.Z I know. I've got the new sources here but no time to go through the all installation process. Maybe next week...! Thanks for replying anyway... Sylvain ---------------- Sylvain Langlois "Dogmatic attachement to the supposed merits (sylvain@chorus.fr) of a particular structure hinders the search (sylvain%chorus.fr@uunet.uu.net) of an appropriate structure" (Robert Fripp)