Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 06:53:26 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Local mail delivery & file locking? Message-ID: <200109121353.f8CDrQs58429@bunrab.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <20010912145145.B987@dedog.argus-systems.co.uk>
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>Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 14:51:46 +0100 >From: fergus <tofergus@yahoo.co.uk> >best guess is that she has set her default mbox to the same as her spool >mail box & there is no check for it so they are overwriting each other. But mail.local does try to lock the file, and the use of the spool mail box is the default -- I certainly do the same, yet encounter no problems. (Nor have I, ever since I started using "mail" as an MUA, which was ca. 1986. Of course, various things have changed a bit since then....) Cheers, david -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org As a computing professional, I believe it would be unethical for me to advise, recommend, or support the use (save possibly for personal amusement) of any product that is or depends on any Microsoft product. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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