> > The reason I am even thinking about it is that the presort Inc > > method of my exmh sometimes get stucked. To be more specific, It > > seems that there are so me messages, which I can't fully > > characterize, that cause Inc to terminate its action. Where this > > termination does not seem to be normal since some of the email is > > getting copied to the desired directories, but not removed from my > > mail box (/var/spool/mail/shaul). When I am trying to invoke mail > > afterwards to see what is going on and delete the messages that > > were copied, it seems that someone, probably the Inc method, also > > left out /var/spool/mail/shaul.lock. Now all of this could be > > caused by my .maildelivery file because I am far from > > understanding what exactly is written in it. Which led me to > > trying to read the slocal man page, which led me to > > /etc/nmh/maildelivery. > > There are quite a few people who saw EXACTLY this problem (including > myself). I saw a few emails on EXMH mailing list too. I think it's > some "corrupted" email you get. Lock file is set by EXMH, once > "inc" is done, it's supposed t o be removed. You can incorporate > email by running nmh "inc" from xterminal (not from EXMH). It'll > work, but there will be no filtering, everything will end up in > inbox. It happended to me in "libc6 problems period" in slink, did > not see that again. So far I did not see reasonable explanation for > that phenomena, on EXMH list too.
This is a reply to an old email. I just thought I would tell you that the problem has now been fixed. It was a bug in nmh. If you get nmh version 1.0-3 or higher, then the problem should be fixed. Cheers, Mark. _/~~~~~~~~\___/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ ____/~~\_____/~~\__/~~\__________________________Mark_Phillips____________ ____/~~\_____/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ____/~~\HE___/~~\__/~~\APTAIN_____________________________________________ ____/~~\______/~~~~~~\____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________ "They told me I was gullible ... and I believed them!"