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From: Patrick Giagnocavo <support@xinside.com>
To: Mark Hannon <mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: dtmail & NFS mounted /var/mail
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Mark Hannon writes:
 >  Hi again,
 > 
 > Some more problems/issues with CDE.
 > 
 > I am having some problems with dtmail accessing my /var/mail which
 > is NFS mounted from my mail-server.  I can't seem to update the
 > inbox reliably and dtmail tends to crash when trying to do so....
 > 
 > I guess this is because we don't have any working NFS file-locking.
 > Does anybody have any suggestions as to how one could get this
 > working?
 > 
 > I saw some mention of tooltalk helping me out here... is that true?
 > (CDE is not installed on the mail-server).
 > 
 > Thanks, Mark

Hello Mark,

Thank you for your purchase of our AcceleratedX server and CDE.

What may be happening is that dtmail is trying to lock the mail file
with ToolTalk messages (especially if you are doing things on a Sun).
The earlier version of ToolTalk that some Sun and other machines have
is incompatible with CDE ToolTalk.

Please put the following into your ~/.mailrc file:

    set cdenotooltalk

Please let me know if this fixes the problem you are seeing.

Cordially
--
Patrick Giagnocavo - support@xinside.com
Xi Graphics  - Accelerated X Servers
Technical Support Department