.lock ?

michael@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Schmidt) (07/12/90)

The subject says it all. We are going to share one spool directory
among many clients. But for doing this, we have to ensure, that mh
also respects the locking by /usr/spool/mail/<user>.lock. Elm, Emacs
(rmail), mail, xmail, mailtool do so, inc apparently does not only
ignore the lock, but it looks so as if inc REMOVES the lock.

This is 
version: MH 6.5 #55[UCI] (libra) of Wed Jan 24 16:24:49 MET 1990
options: [BERK] [BIND] [BSD42] [BSD43] [DUMB] [MHE] [MHRC] [UCI]
         [MORE='"less"'] [SBACKUP='"#"'] [SENDMTS]
-- 
      Michael Schmidt, FB 17, Uni-GH Paderborn, Warburgerstr. 100,
                     D-4790 Paderborn, West Germany
Mail:   michael@pbinfo.UUCP         or          michael@uni-paderborn.de

wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu (Bill Wisner) (07/13/90)

In the file $(etc)/mtstailor add the line:

lockstyle: 1

See mh-tailor(5).

Bill Wisner <wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> Gryphon Gang Fairbanks AK 99775
"I burn a flag every night. Big ones, little ones..." -- Lee Peters, director
of student housing at the University of Alaska Fairbanks