wwgrol(_at_)sparc01(_dot_)fw(_dot_)hac(_dot_)com (W. Wesley Groleau x4923)
writes:
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Just I few minutes ago I got
mailtool is confused about the state of your
mail file. Please exit mailtool and restart it.
It's a known bug in mailtool. To quote the procmail FAQ:
16. My mailtool sometimes reports that it is confused about the state of
the mailbox, or I get "Couldn't unlock" errors from procmail now and then,
or sometimes it simply seems to hang just when new mail arrives.
This is a known bug in the OpenLook mailtool. It holds on to the
kernel lock on the mail-spoolfile most of the time, and releases
this lock when it shouldn't. Either ask for a bugfix from your
vendor (I'm not sure if a bugfix exists), or make sure that during
the compilation of procmail both the fcntl() and lockf() locking
methods are disabled (see config.h).
As long as you're recompiling, you should probably upgrade to 3.11pre7,
availible from ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:/pub/packages/procmail/
Philip Guenther