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- From: drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (David R. Linn)
- Subject: file locking mechanism of OW3 mail
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.135151.6200@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>
- Summary: locking query
- Keywords: OpenWindows 3 Mail file locking
- Sender: news@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (News Manager)
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- Organization: Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 13:51:51 GMT
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- Can anyone give a definitive statement on changes incorporated in the
- version of Mail (ucbmail or mailx) that is shipped with OW3? I have
- just switched over to OW3 and seem to be losing mail. I use procmail
- to deliver mail into my home directory and I have actually watched mail
- disappear. Since this was not a problem before the switch to OW3, I
- assume that either OW3 Mail or OW3 mailtool is now doing something that
- the old version did not do.
-
- On a related topic, does anyone else find the changes in behavior of
- OW3 concering disposal of read-but-not-saved mail annoying? (One must
- now explicitly save things to the mbox.) Can OW3 mailtool be
- configured to be more like the OW2 version?
-
- On a less related topic, where is OW3 documentation to be found? The docs
- I have are for OW2.
-
- David
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