exmh inc failure (was: Should I be concerned about /etc/nmh/maildelivery?)
> > 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 so me 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.
>
> There are quite a few people who saw EXACTLY this problem (including
> myself). I saw a few emails on EXMH mailing list too. I think it's
> some "corrupted" email you get. Lock file is set by EXMH, once
> "inc" is done, it's supposed t o be removed. You can incorporate
> email by running nmh "inc" from xterminal (not from EXMH). It'll
> work, but there will be no filtering, everything will end up in
> inbox. It happended to me in "libc6 problems period" in slink, did
> not see that again. So far I did not see reasonable explanation for
> that phenomena, on EXMH list too.
This is a reply to an old email. I just thought I would tell you that
the problem has now been fixed. It was a bug in nmh. If you get nmh
version 1.0-3 or higher, then the problem should be fixed.
Cheers,
Mark.
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