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Author: Henry Stilmack - JAC System Manager
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: Mail file locks
OS: Solaris 2.5
Exim 1.62

We have a problem with certain users who _insist_ onusing Sun's OpenLook
mailtool as their MUA (most of our users use pine, some CDE mailtool, and a
smattering of Emacs and exmh). It's only the OpenLook mailtool users who have
this problem:

A user runs up mailtool in the morning. From that point on, Exim can't deliver
any amil to that user because it cannot get a lock on the mail file. The
incoming mail sits in the queue until I can get the user to exit mailtool,
then run the queue.

Is this an Exim problem (I doubt it) or a mailtool problem (probably), and
does anyone have a fix?

Thanks, and Aloha!

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Henry Stilmack   <hps@???>         Computing Systems Administrator
UK/Netherlands/Canada Joint Astronomy Centre   Tel: +1 808-969-6530
660 N. A'ohoku Place, Hilo, HI 96720           Fax: +1 808-969-6591
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