Another version of Mail/mail
2007-12-25 7:39:00
>I frequently like to read mail that I have set up in other accounts using
>
> Mail -f ~account/mbox
>
>Now, when I run the command, I get "permission denied". The only thing that
>I changed is that I install OpenWindows 3.0. I checked out
>$OPENWIN/openwin/bin, and see that there is a new version of Mail/mail out
>there, which doesn't behave the same way as /usr/bin/Mail, /usr/bin/mail.
>
>My question is would anything break if I removed the openwin version of
>Mail/mail?
>
> Kevin W. Thomas
> National Severe Storms Laboratory
> Norman, Oklahoma
Most of the responses suggested that I create an alias for Mail or just
switch around my path so that the right version is used.
Both are reasonable suggestions, but neither addresses the problem.
The real answer came from Lane Robert.
>According to Sun, the [Mm]ail program in the OpenWindows 3 bin
>directory should not be there. At the time we talked to them, they
>couldn't even find the source for it! We removed it here with no
>obvious ill effects.
>
>Lane
Thank to:
Tasuki Hirata <sukes@eng.umd.edu>
pmetzger@shearson.com (Perry E. Metzger)
"(Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII)" <brossard@sasun1.epfl.ch>
etnibsd!vsh@uunet.UU.NET (Steve Harris)
leafusa!orac!stuart@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Stuart Freedman {x1708})
"Robert Lane A." <lar@ucs.usl.edu>
Kevin W. Thomas
National Severe Storms Laboratory
Norman, Oklahoma
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