sboswell@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (....What Is?....) (12/23/90)
Hi, I don't know which newsgroup to route this to, so here we go anyways. I just wrote a "mail server" program that reads my mail file (on a BSD 4.3 Tahoe system), picks out letters with certain key subjects, and processes the message body (for instance, it'll send out help files for a few programs that I made publicly executable.) The problem is trying to avoid clashes between sendmail and my program. If the timing is off (which it is a lot more often than I expected), new letters that are waiting for the file not to be busy get eaten as soon as I close the file. How do I get around this? Please mail replies; I haven't been reading news regularly lately. Thanks, Steve Boswell sboswell@ucsd.edu