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Date:      Mon, 25 Nov 2002 16:00:52 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Philip Paeps <philip@paeps.cx>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I'm impressed, but ...
Message-ID:  <3DE2B9B4.ABC49BB2@mindspring.com>
References:  <20021125004934.GA604@juno.home.paeps.cx> <20021125194122.GA17986@angelica.unixdaemons.com> <20021125202755.GA633@juno.home.paeps.cx> <3DE2A4FB.8E51F525@mindspring.com> <20021125233109.GA615@juno.home.paeps.cx>

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Philip Paeps wrote:
> > The "maildirs issue", I won't comment on, at this time.
> 
> I hope I can provide enough information for someone to solve it though :-)  It
> would be nice to be able to read my mail 'reliably' :-)

The problem is not the amount, but the type of information.

You need to characterize the problem well enough that you can
write a little program that can repeat it on someone else's
machine, without them having to create an installation identical
to yours on a scratch box ...particularly when it looks like if
they tried that, it would work for them.

Right now, there are other people using the same software that
can't repeat the problem.

Without knowing whether or not you are both/neither/or-or-the-other
using NFS, etc., it's really impossible to even point you in the
right direction (NFS is my hunch, in this case; it's a common reason
for use of "maildirs", to try and side-step locking issues).

You probably need to get together with the other person who
said they were *not* having a problem, and do a detailed
compare on system configuration, if all other things are equal.

-- Terry

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