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From: tlh@pbhyf.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: MAIL ICON - was Re: 3b1: files winding up in the wrong directory
Message-ID: <2443@pbhyf.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 29-Nov-87 15:06:26 EST
Article-I.D.: pbhyf.2443
Posted: Sun Nov 29 15:06:26 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 1-Dec-87 06:46:27 EST
References: <764@neoucom.UUCP> <51@icus.UUCP>
Reply-To: tlh@pbhyf.UUCP (Lee Hounshell)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
Lines: 21
Keywords: twilight zone; very weird problem

In article <51@icus.UUCP> lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes:
>..This is a problem with the system manager (smgr) which controls the
>MAIL ICON at the top of the screen.  If you save your mail after clicking
>on the icon, it indeed goes in /etc/lddrv/mbox, this is a *BUG* not
>a system problem...

I've been having a problem with my mail icon for a few months now.. for some
reason, it's just "no longer there."  When I receive mail, the smgr program
(I assume that's the one that paints the icon) will instead just put
garbage is that section of the status line.  (It looks something like
"+