On Sun, 2 Feb 1997, Philip Guenther wrote:
Beads Land <beads(_at_)beadsland(_dot_)com> writes:
Has anyone encountered a problem with mail in their INBOX ending with a
series (as much as 1K) of null bytes?
Previous reports of this have generally turned out to be due to locking
problems. Do you have locallockfiles on those recipes that need them?
In particular, do all the recipes that write to the problem mailbox have
a second colon on the ":0" line of the recipe? If so, then it may be
Nothing writes to that mailbox except as the default action if all other
recipies aren't run. Should I explicitly have the last action deliver to
my inbox?
another program that's failing to lock the mailbox before accessing it.
You say you use pine. Is it locking the involved mailbox on every access?
Uh, I honestly don't know. I would *assume* that pine, being a rather
tried-and-true program on UNIX systems, handles the mailbox appropriately.
I could be wrong though.
Beads
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