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From: dima@server.ru
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Subject: 'mail -u' works incorectly
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>Number:         14976
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       'mail -u' works incorectly
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Nov 18 07:40:00 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:    Thu Nov 18 16:48:00 PST 1999
>Last-Modified:  Thu Nov 18 16:48:31 PST 1999
>Originator:     Dmitry Kazarov
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE
>Organization:
Server
>Environment:
>Description:
'mail -u user1' issued by user2 opens mailbox of user2 - not of user1 as stated by man
>How-To-Repeat:
# mail
No mail for root
# adduser user1
...
# echo 'Hello!' | mail -s 'test' user1
# ls -l /var/mail/user1
-rw------- 1 user1 users 347 Nov 18 18:28 /var/mail/user1
# mail -u user1
No mail for user1
# mail -f /var/mail/user1
Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help
"/var/mail/user1": 1 message 1 new
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net>
To: dima@server.ru
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/14976: 'mail -u' works incorectly
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:26:01 -0800

 On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 07:31:16AM -0800, dima@server.ru wrote:
 > 
 > 'mail -u user1' issued by user2 opens mailbox of user2 - not of user1 as stated by man
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > # mail
 > No mail for root
 > # adduser user1
 > ...
 > # echo 'Hello!' | mail -s 'test' user1
 > # ls -l /var/mail/user1
 > -rw------- 1 user1 users 347 Nov 18 18:28 /var/mail/user1
 > # mail -u user1
 > No mail for user1
 > # mail -f /var/mail/user1
 > Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help
 > "/var/mail/user1": 1 message 1 new
 
 FWIW, this is working for me.
 
 # echo 'Hello!' | mail -s 'test' cpiazza 
 # mail -u cpiazza
 [...]
 >N 20 root@norn.ca.eu.org   Thu Nov 18 15:24  13/414   "test"
 & q
 Held 20 messages in /var/mail/cpiazza
 
 -Chris
 -- 
 cpiazza@home.net   cpiazza@FreeBSD.org
         Abbotsford, BC, Canada
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: jmz 
State-Changed-When: Thu Nov 18 16:48:00 PST 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
Fixed. 
>Unformatted:
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