On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 08:59:09AM +0100, Philip Hazel quothed:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Andreas Edler wrote:
> > On the standard local_delivery I get following error:
> >
> > local_delivery defer (-9): failed to lock mailbox /var/mail/test (fcntl)
>
> I do not, otherwise I wouldn't be answering this mail!
>
> My system is Solaris 8, and the data is on a NetApp fileserver. Looks
> like whatever is holding your data is not running a lockd, or not
> running one that works. Or maybe your Exim box isn't running a lockd.
>
> The exim_lock utility is a useful tool for checking out mailbox locking
> problems.
If you don't like the idea of running lockd, then there is always
maildir. I would recomand it for any large systems.
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