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Grex Info Item 184: can't access mail-help needed
Entered by tfk on Tue Nov 1 15:47:42 UTC 1994:

I am trying to get my mail
via Pine,and I get the message
"folder /usr/spool/mail/tfk is
locked". I wait for an override
and then the message comes up
"seek expert help"!
Can anyone help me?

14 responses total.

#1 of 14 by steve on Tue Nov 1 16:32:19 1994:

   It should be fixed.  Three was 491 lock files around in the
mail spool area.  I killed them.

#2 of 14 by tfk on Tue Nov 1 16:46:18 1994:

I still can't access mail.
I get the message folder
format invalidated in Pine.
When I type "mail" command
I get garbage response.

#3 of 14 by marylee on Tue Nov 1 18:52:05 1994:

For some reason, when I signed up on this system it skipped my E-mail address! 
How can I go back and add it? HELP!! (This is all new to me)

#4 of 14 by rcurl on Tue Nov 1 19:09:05 1994:

Your e-mail address on Grex is marylee, and from outside grex it is
marylee@cyberspace.org   (Welcome to Grex, Mary Lee, where everything
is clear and simple - a year later ;->).

#5 of 14 by davel on Tue Nov 1 19:13:51 1994:

Or do you mean that you want to forward your email somewhere else, or
something like that?

#6 of 14 by katie on Tue Nov 1 21:43:49 1994:

So we don't need the .grex. in the mailing address anymore?

#7 of 14 by rcurl on Tue Nov 1 22:14:27 1994:

Correct. But it is OK, too.
(For now - someday there may be a second machine at cyberspace.org.)

#8 of 14 by popcorn on Wed Nov 2 01:21:45 1994:

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#9 of 14 by tfk on Wed Nov 2 18:45:22 1994:

Problem fixed! I had to recreate my mailbox, as you said.
Thanks for your help!

#10 of 14 by popcorn on Thu Nov 3 18:57:44 1994:

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#11 of 14 by nephi on Fri Dec 9 06:58:14 1994:

Someone just told me that Grex does not recognize numbers in outgoing 
mail (i.e. 192.217.61.3 , my school address).  Is this correct?

#12 of 14 by srw on Fri Dec 9 08:29:58 1994:

I think you can use numbers if you must (it isn't recommended).
I haven't tried this, but I think it goes person@[numbers]
Why not try it and see if it works?

#13 of 14 by mdw on Fri Dec 9 10:37:26 1994:

Grex should recognize @[ ]; but some other mailers don't.  As a general
rules, domain names are better if at all practical.  The particular IP
address you named goes to 3b2adm.mckendree.edu, which is running an old
version of sendmail & may very well not recognize that syntax.  My
understanding from other mckendree users is that your mail address is
probably instead something like
        login-ID@a2-mckendree.edu
but you should probably consult with your site's user people first.  To
find out the e-mail address of a person at another site, it often works
to send mail to postmaster@site-dns-name, but it looks like that's
broken at mckendree (besides being extremely round-about.)  Another way
to find out is to send yourself e-mail on grex *from* mckendree and find
out what the return address is.

#14 of 14 by tsty on Fri Dec 9 14:35:25 1994:

That last line above (#13) is the slickest and quickest, imo.

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