From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 06:08:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA02687 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 06:08:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA02679 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 06:08:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA00231 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 08:10:17 GMT Received: from buffnet7.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa10285; 8 Jul 96 9:08 EDT Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 09:08:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Stephen Hovey To: Vrushal Dongre cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with ELM In-Reply-To: <199607081639.AA22600@68f800.rolta.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 8 Jul 1996, Vrushal Dongre wrote: > > Hello All ! > I need some help &...quickly please ! > I have a FBSD 2.0 mailserver & I have installed ELM on the system. > The compilation went OK . > But now when I type elm at the prompt I get the following messages :- > > Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #n > > After 7 attempts it says:- > Giving up after 7 iteration. > Please try to read your mail again in a few minutes. > Timed out on locking mailbox. Leaving program. Are you trying to do this over NFS ?