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Bug 104491 - 'nail -u myname' does not work
Summary: 'nail -u myname' does not work
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Net-Mail Packages
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Reported: 2005-09-01 08:24 UTC by anon_101100
Modified: 2005-09-02 05:18 UTC (History)
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Description anon_101100 2005-09-01 08:24:33 UTC 
I'm using nail as my MUA. I can view mail (mbox format) by entering 'nail'. When
I enter 'nail -u myname', the system responds with "No mail for myname". Trying
to read myname's mail as root by running 'nail -u myname' has the same outcome.
'strace nail -u myname' reveals that the system is searching for
~/.maildir/myname instead of /var/mail/myname.

I just emerged world this morning (9/1/2005) and still had the same problem.

My initial post about it is here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-375800.html
Comment 1 anon_101100 2005-09-01 08:29:47 UTC 
# emerge --info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.5-20050130,
glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686 mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP2200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -mcpu=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org
  http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X acpi alsa apache2 arts avi bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth cdr
crypt ctype cups dri dvd eds emboss encode fam foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif
gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 ieee1394 imap imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde libcaca
libg++ libwww lirc mad maildir mailwrapper mbox mhash mikmod mime mmx motif
mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pda pdflib
perl php png posix postgres python qt quicktime readline sasl scanner sdl skey
slang sndfile snmp speex spell spl sse ssl svga symlink tcpd threads tiff
truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis wifi xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU
kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Comment 2 Fernando J. Pereda (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-09-02 05:18:58 UTC 
nail-11.25-r3 is in CVS with a fix for this. Thanks.

Cheers,
Ferdy