From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from uq.net.au(fox.uq.net.au[203.101.255.1]) (1034 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 00:28:09 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from data.home (mail@dyn-21-100.dialin.uq.net.au [203.100.21.100]) by uq.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA04835 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 15:28:11 +1000 (GMT+1000) Received: from geoff by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 14Qjck-0003gt-00; Thu, 08 Feb 2001 15:28:06 +1000 Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 15:28:06 +1000 (EST) From: Geoff Shang To: Subject: Re: More on mail Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Hi: hmmm. I would have thought the mail file would have been created as part of the user account creation process. Perhpas try typing: echo $MAIL and see what it prints. Note that linux is case sensitive. Your user account and home and mail files should have the same capitalisation. Geoff.