From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Feb 23 15:06:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA19647 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:06:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA19640 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:05:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA04094; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 00:05:10 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA19142; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 00:04:58 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id XAA05676; Fri, 23 Feb 1996 23:26:04 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602232226.XAA05676@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: elm:Folder is corrupt!! I can't read it!! To: faulkner@asgard.bga.com (Boyd R. Faulkner) Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 23:26:04 +0100 (MET) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602231857.MAA01735@asgard.bga.com> from "Boyd R. Faulkner" at Feb 23, 96 12:58:15 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Boyd R. Faulkner wrote: > > Folder is corrupt!! I can't read it!! > > I often get this message using elm. elm then exits. I assume I am trying to > read the file while it is being updated by procmail. I can establish dot > locking from procmail but trying to set elm to do dot locking seems to > mail the file unreadable. Do flock locking from procmail. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)