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Date:      Wed, 28 Aug 1996 09:34:53 +0200 (MESZ)
From:      "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>
To:        kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [ELM 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] - folder is corrupt!
Message-ID:  <199608280734.AA011157693@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>
In-Reply-To: <199608271532.RAA13946@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Aug 27, 96 05:32:30 pm

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E-mail message from Christoph Kukulies contained:
> 
> 
> Since I installed [ELM 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] I'm getting often
> 
> a 'folder is corrupt' message. Not 100% sure but the pattern appears to be
> that it happens often and only when I'm leaving elm while new mail
> is being received.
> 
> Anyone else seeing this?

Yes, and it means that sendmail and elm do not agree about the mailbox
locking protocol.  It occurs almost regularly if the spool is NFS mounted,
even if the NFS implementation supports locking.

Locking via a lock file seems to cure it.

/Marino
> 
> --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
> 




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