From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 28 00:39:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA09280 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 00:39:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eins.siemens.at (eins.siemens.at [193.81.246.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA09273 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 00:39:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sol1.gud.siemens.co.at (root@firix [10.1.143.100]) by eins.siemens.at (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA09849 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 09:38:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at by sol1.gud.siemens.co.at with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #7 for ) id m0uvfCx-00021hC; Wed, 28 Aug 96 09:38 MET DST Received: by ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at (1.37.109.16/1.37) id AA011157693; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 09:34:53 +0200 From: "Hr.Ladavac" Message-Id: <199608280734.AA011157693@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> Subject: Re: [ELM 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] - folder is corrupt! To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 09:34:53 +0200 (MESZ) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608271532.RAA13946@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Aug 27, 96 05:32:30 pm 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-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk E-mail message from Christoph Kukulies contained: > > > Since I installed [ELM 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] I'm getting often > > a 'folder is corrupt' message. Not 100% sure but the pattern appears to be > that it happens often and only when I'm leaving elm while new mail > is being received. > > Anyone else seeing this? Yes, and it means that sendmail and elm do not agree about the mailbox locking protocol. It occurs almost regularly if the spool is NFS mounted, even if the NFS implementation supports locking. Locking via a lock file seems to cure it. /Marino > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de >