From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 12 5:46:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bunrab.catwhisker.org (adsl-63-193-123-122.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.123.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96F6937B40C for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 05:46:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from david@localhost) by bunrab.catwhisker.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f8CCkkO58305; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 05:46:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 05:46:46 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <200109121246.f8CCkkO58305@bunrab.catwhisker.org> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Local mail delivery & file locking? Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK; this is weird. I've only seen it with one person, but it's (thus) rather more perplexing: It seems that sometimes(!), my spouse's mailbox gets clobbered, apparently if she exits mail with saved messages at Just The Right Time with respect to local delivery of a new message. Please note that she & I are using the same machine & the same programs, but I have yet to encounter this. And I get a lot more mail than she does -- after all, my freebsd,org subscriptions come here. The MUA we're using is /usr/bin/mail. (Yes, I know it's ancient. It suits me. I've suggested that she might want to consider a different program; her response was to ask which one I use, and when I told her, she said that it ought to work for her, too. I can't fault the logic.)