Problem with sendmail on Sun 3/60

[dennisg at kgw2.bwi.wec.com]

Configuration:
	Sun 3/60
	SunOS 4.0.1

i have a problem with sendmail.  sendmail seems to need a file in
/var/spool/mail for each user;  otherwise, it sends mail to that user to
/dev/null (if local delivery) or returns it.  if i create a user using:

	touch nobody
	chown nobody nobody
	chmod 600 nobody

in /var/spool/mail then mail will indeed be placed in user "nobody"'s
mailbox.

some file/directory information:

kgw2% ls -lg /bin/mail
-rwsr-xr-x  1 root     daemon      24576 Dec  1  1989 /bin/mail*
kgw2% ls -lg /usr/ucb/mail
-r-sr-xr-x  2 root     daemon      98304 Apr  9  1988 /usr/ucb/mail*
kgw2% ls -lg /usr/ucb/Mail
-r-sr-xr-x  2 root     daemon      98304 Apr  9  1988 /usr/ucb/Mail*
kgw2% ls -lg /var/spool
total 49
drwxrwsr-x  2 root     daemon       1024 Nov  1 09:11 mail/
drwxr-sr-x  2 root     daemon       1536 Nov  1 08:51 mqueue/
drwxrwsrwx  2 bin      staff         512 Apr  9  1988 secretmail/
kgw2% ls -lg /usr/lib/sendmail*
-r-sr-x--x  1 root     staff      114688 May  6  1989 /usr/lib/sendmail*
-r--r--r--  1 root     staff        1544 Apr  9  1988 /usr/lib/sendmail.hf
-r--r--r--  1 root     staff       10327 Apr  9  1988 /usr/lib/sendmail.main.cf
-r-sr-x--x  1 root     staff      131072 Apr  9  1988 /usr/lib/sendmail.mx*
-r--r--r--  1 root     staff        7882 Apr  9  1988 /usr/lib/sendmail.subsidiary.cf
kgw2% ls -l /etc/sendmail.cf
-r--r--r--  1 root        10331 Nov  1 08:52 /etc/sendmail.cf

Is this a common problem of is my mail system broke?

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