Re: smail "lock failed - try again" - message
My first guess is that a transaction was in progress and has not
yet timed out. For example, I tried to send a message and then hung
up the line before it was complete. I think I read someplace that it
will try to complete for a vrey long time (2hr seems to stick in my
mind but I might be wrong). After that, it will time out and unlock
message and you can retry. Simply wait for a while, reconnect and try again.
This is a problem with dynamic IP. If you had static IP it would continue
from where it left off when you last disconnected.
In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.970225211956.782A-100000@johann>,
Johann Spies <jhspies@alpha.futurenet.co.za> writes:
> Hallo,
>
> When I connect to my ISP and run runq the message "lock failed - try
> again" sometimes comes up in the /var/log/smail/logfile and mail in the
> queue are not sent. If, while online, I send a message directly from
> pine, it goes through while the queue stays with the same message.
>
> Why does that happen? What is this "lock failed"? How can I correct it?
>
> Thanks for your help in the past.
>
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