Bug 14976

Summary: 'mail -u' works incorectly
Product: Base System Reporter: dima <dima>
Component: miscAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 3.3-STABLE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description dima 1999-11-18 15:40:00 UTC 
'mail -u user1' issued by user2 opens mailbox of user2 - not of user1 as stated by man

How-To-Repeat: # mail
No mail for root
# adduser user1
...
# echo 'Hello!' | mail -s 'test' user1
# ls -l /var/mail/user1
-rw------- 1 user1 users 347 Nov 18 18:28 /var/mail/user1
# mail -u user1
No mail for user1
# mail -f /var/mail/user1
Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help
"/var/mail/user1": 1 message 1 new
Comment 1 cpiazza 1999-11-18 23:26:01 UTC 
On Thu, Nov 18, 1999 at 07:31:16AM -0800, dima@server.ru wrote:
> 
> 'mail -u user1' issued by user2 opens mailbox of user2 - not of user1 as stated by man
> >How-To-Repeat:
> # mail
> No mail for root
> # adduser user1
> ...
> # echo 'Hello!' | mail -s 'test' user1
> # ls -l /var/mail/user1
> -rw------- 1 user1 users 347 Nov 18 18:28 /var/mail/user1
> # mail -u user1
> No mail for user1
> # mail -f /var/mail/user1
> Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help
> "/var/mail/user1": 1 message 1 new

FWIW, this is working for me.

# echo 'Hello!' | mail -s 'test' cpiazza 
# mail -u cpiazza
[...]
>N 20 root@norn.ca.eu.org   Thu Nov 18 15:24  13/414   "test"
& q
Held 20 messages in /var/mail/cpiazza

-Chris
-- 
cpiazza@home.net   cpiazza@FreeBSD.org
        Abbotsford, BC, Canada
Comment 2 jmz freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 1999-11-19 00:48:00 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed