Something funny in Mail

Something funny in Mail

[Peter]

Hi,


for more than 2 years when I give the <italic>mail</italic> command I would 
get the following message first: Unknown command: "Albert"; now all of a 
sudden I get: Unknown command: "Jim".


After that command proceeds as expected. So it's no bother I now just wonder 
how that happens. Both Albert and Jim are friends of mine.


Regards

-- 

Peter


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Re: Something funny in Mail

[Jos Lemmerling]

On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Peter wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> for more than 2 years when I give the <italic>mail</italic> command I would 
> get the following message first: Unknown command: "Albert"; now all of a 
> sudden I get: Unknown command: "Jim".
> 
> 
> After that command proceeds as expected. So it's no bother I now just wonder 
> how that happens. Both Albert and Jim are friends of mine.

Look into your '.mailrc' in your home-directory; it's probarly containing
the names Albert and Jim. 

I've tried some and i got this:
bash-2.05a$ mail
Unknown command: "jopie"
No mail for jos

On that moment the file '.mailrc' was containing 'jopie'. When i deleted
the name it works fine again.


HTH

--
Jos Lemmerling on Debian GNU/Linux			jos(@)lemmerling(.net)


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Re: Something funny in Mail

[Peter]

> On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Peter wrote:
> >> After that command proceeds as expected. So it's no bother I now
> >> just wonder how that happens. Both Albert and Jim are friends of mine.
> 
> 
> jos@lemmerling.net said:
> > Look into your '.mailrc' in your home-directory; it's probarly
> > containing the names Albert and Jim. 
> 

> > HTH

>Peter said:
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> I checked .mailrc and it had quite a few e-mail addesses. The first
> one was 
> Albert's the second one Jim's. Now before Albert was the word 'alias',
> therefore the unknown command changed to Jim.
> 
> Which program is manipulating .mailrc?

> man mail does not say neither could I find a reference in HOWTOs

jos@lemmerling.net said:
> dunno, I don't use the program mail that much... I've checked some
> man-pages, but couldn't find anything.

> Perhaps you've done some experimenting in the mail-program itself?

NOT AT ALL

> HTH

> -- Jos Lemmerling on Debian GNU/Linux			jos(@)lemmerling(.net) 


-- 
Peter

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