Re: mailbox not deleted on inc!!!
Hi, Mark!
I had EXACTLY the same problem, ended up with tons of duplicated mails. I
solved the problem by running "inc" from nmh in Xterm window (not from exmh).
It put everything in my inbox without filtering :(. After that everyting
worked fine. Still don't know what it was. I suspect some "corrupted" mail.
Sasha.
> Hi,
>
> My mail is behaving strangely. I would incorporate my mail in exmh, and
> then do it again and the same messages would be incorporated a second
> time. I had a look at /var/spool/mail/mark and discovered that it
> wasn't being emptied when incorporated. Indeed, this is what the
> directory looked like:
>
> # ls -laF /var/spool/mail/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 mark 1000 294367 Dec 17 10:39 mark
> -rw------- 1 mark mail 0 Dec 17 10:58 mark.lock
> -rw-rw---- 1 paul mail 1799 May 4 1997 paul
>
> Now what is that "mark.lock" file all about? I deleted the lock file, tried
> incorporating again and same thing happened - and the lock file reappeared.
> Also, the group and file permissions seem strange. I decided to delete
> the "mark" and "mark.lock" files and that seems to have solved the problem,
> but I would like to know how the problem ever arose!
>
> What was going on, and how did it get that way?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark.
>
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