RE: Help: sendmail/filter locking errors
I'm unfamiliar with filter and elm, so this may be on the wrong track.
Anyhow, I had a similar problem trying to use two mail user agents
simultaneously (on a Sun, as it happens). The first program had placed a
lock on the mailbox while the second program, using the same protocol,
saw the lock refused to open my mailbox. Quitting both and restarting
the second program cured this.
If this is so, the `couldn't create lock file' problem is probably
causing the `couldn't open mailbox ...' problem.
HTH,
Casper Boden-Cummins.
>----------
>From: eamon@studentservices.com[SMTP:eamon@studentservices.com]
>Sent: 21 August 1996 15:48
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Cc: The recipient's address is unknown.
>Subject: Help: sendmail/filter locking errors
>
>I just made the switch the debian distribution,
>and I'm fairly impressed with it so far. However,
>with the installation of the elm 2.4pl25-2
>package, filter appears to be broken. It panics
>when it tries to lock, reporting:
>
>filter (Wed Aug 21 09:30:32 1996 eamon): Mailing message to eamon
>filter (Wed Aug 21 09:31:02 1996 eamon): Couldn't create lock file
>filter (Wed Aug 21 09:31:02 1996 eamon): Can't open mailbox
>/var/spool/mail/eamon!
>filter (Wed Aug 21 09:31:02 1996 eamon): Using
>/home/eamon/EMERGENCY_MBOX as emergency mailbox
>
>Permissions on the inboxes in /var/spool/mail are
>660, owned by owner and grouped by 'mail'. Normal
>mail (smail) delivery seems to be going smoothly
>with no locking errors. Any ideas?
>
> - Eamon Daly
> Manager, Electronic Marketing
> (847) 785 8000 x205
>
>
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