Re: Should I be concerned about /etc/nmh/maildelivery ?

[Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au>]

> The reason I am even thinking about it is that the presort Inc
> method of my exmh sometimes get stucked. 
>
> To be more specific, It seems that there are some messages, which I
> can't fully characterize, that cause Inc to terminate its
> action. Where this termination does not seem to be normal since some
> of the email is getting copied to the desired directories, but not
> removed from my mail box (/var/spool/mail/shaul). When I am trying
> to invoke mail afterwards to see what is going on and delete the
> messages that were copied, it seems that someone, probably the Inc
> method, also left out /var/spool/mail/shaul.lock.  
>
> Now all of this could be caused by my .maildelivery file because I
> am far from understanding what exactly is written in it. Which led
> me to trying to read the slocal man page, which led me to
> /etc/nmh/maildelivery.

Are you doing all this through exmh?  I am experiencing exactly the
same problems every now and then when I incorporate mail using exmh.
But when I use inc from the commandline, and use slocal from the
commandline, it works fine.

Cheers,

Mark.


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