Ian Jackson writes: > If it does lock the mailbox correctly you may well find that the > problem with `popclient localhost' is that popclient and in.pop3d are > clashing over the lock on the mailbox. `popclient localhost' is an > inherently silly thing to do.
Well netscape 2.0b1's mailmove program didn't have permission to create a lock file in /var/spool/mail, and there was no way in hell that I was going to make it setuid, so I switched it over to using POP instead, and when that gave an error I wondered what the hell was going on. So I tried mail and popclient and they both failed as well.... Andrew -- Dehydration - 34%, Recollection of previous evening - 2%, embarrassment factor - 91%. Advise repair schedule:- off line for 36 hours, re-boot startup disk, and replace head - wow, what a night! -- Kryten in Red Dwarf `The Last Day' Andrew Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth, Western Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED]