From: sno@ais.org (Stephen Opal) Subject: Interesting elm mail problem. Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1993 18:18:35 GMT
I had a problem with mail that bothered me a great deal until just
recently. Using elm on the default SLS distribution (Jan 18th), caused
some problems with delivery if the recepient did not have a name
in the name field of the /etc/passwd line.
I created an account, and then tried repeatedly to get elm to send
mail to root. However, if root has no name field "::", elm can't figure
out what to do, and fails to even try to send mail. I just recently
manually edited the /etc/passwd file to include a user name for root,
and now things work fine.
Strange.
-- Stephen N. Opal sno@umcc.ais.org