Subject: Pine 3.89 setup for SCO

From: [email-masked] (Data Cal Corp.)
Date: 9 Aug 1994 16:54:33 GMT

I have FTPd the pine 3.89 binary for SCO UNIX from 
soils.agron.iastate.edu and would like to know if this program works with 
MMDF.  I have installed the program and I get sporatic mail delivery on 
the  system.  What I am doing is using UUCP to poll mail from Netcom and 
then MMDF to deliver it, then for now use pine to read the mail.  I plan 
to get SMTP gateway running and have MMDF deliver mail there for the 
people using PCs and pine for those who use terminals.  But this problem 
is persistant.
I sent a message to a friend in the office as a test message. he never 
got it.  He in return sent one back to me and the same.  But when I send 
messages to root (Superuser) it gets there.
The address lines are as follows.

from davida to
[email-masked]    ---no delivery
[email-masked]            ---no delivery
[email-masked]              ---delivery
[email-masked]      ---delivery

from root to
[email-masked]            ---delivery
[email-masked]            ---no delivery

Any ideas?????????????

David Allred
DataCal Corporation
[email-masked] or [email-masked] or [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Gunther Anderson)
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 17:12:27 GMT

Data Cal Corp. ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I have FTPd the pine 3.89 binary for SCO UNIX from 
: soils.agron.iastate.edu and would like to know if this program works with 
: MMDF.  I have installed the program and I get sporatic mail delivery on 
: the  system.  What I am doing is using UUCP to poll mail from Netcom and 
: then MMDF to deliver it, then for now use pine to read the mail.  I plan 
: to get SMTP gateway running and have MMDF deliver mail there for the 
: people using PCs and pine for those who use terminals.  But this problem 
: is persistant.

Well, at least Pine isn't the problem.  Pine doesn't touch your 
underlying mail system at all in its operation.  What you should probably 
do, to ease your mind a bit, is only use /bin/mail until you've either 
fixed the delivery problem, or satisfied youself that Pine isn't causing 
the problems.

: I sent a message to a friend in the office as a test message. he never 
: got it.  He in return sent one back to me and the same.  But when I send 
: messages to root (Superuser) it gets there.
: The address lines are as follows.

: Any ideas?????????????

Check your permissions on all the MMDF stuff.  I don't, of course, 
remember the correct command to issue, but you'll want to run (I think 
it's called) checkperms on the MMDF package to see if there's a part that 
should be setuid that isn't, or vice versa.  If root can do something 
that the rest of the world can't, it's more than likely a permissions 
problem.  But this is, at its heart, a MMDF problem.

Gunther Anderson