de@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (David England) (12/13/90)
Why does the OpenWindows (2.0) mailtool trash the messages in my
spool directory? Occasionally it merges one message with another,
infrequently it will loose messages completely! This is not acceptable.
David England
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UseNet: mcsun!ukc!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!debarnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) (12/15/90)
In article <7215@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> de@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (David England) writes: > Why does the OpenWindows (2.0) mailtool trash the messages in my > spool directory? Occasionally it merges one message with another, > infrequently it will loose messages completely! This is not acceptable. I don't know for sure, but I suggest the following. 1) if you NFS mount your /var/spool/mail directory, and you have the 'OR' option in your sendmail.cf file, you also set the actimeo to 1: unclejack:/var/spool/mail /var/spool/mail nfs rw,hard,actimeo=1,intr 0 0 2) Get the latest version of sendmail from uunet. 3) Be care of reading mail from home, while mailtool is running. I always select "save changes" and/or "done" before I leave for the day. -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett