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Re: elm problem



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At 08:19 PM 10/29/96 +1100, Lawrence Chim wrote:

>I don't know why when I run elm, it displays the following message then
>quit.
>
>Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #0
>

That used to occur from a bug in an old Slackware release. This had to do 
with permissions/ownership settings of the inbox files in /var/spool/mail.
Check to see if they are:

    -rw-rw----   username   mail

Hope this helps.

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