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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!ieunet!maths.tcd.ie!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: bos@serpentine.com (Bryan O'Sullivan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: smail-3.1.29.1 cannot lock mailboxes Date: 7 Jun 1995 01:27:03 +0100 Organization: Polymorphous Thaumaturgy Lines: 21 Sender: bosullvn@maths.tcd.ie Message-ID: <3r2ron$qap@bell.maths.tcd.ie> References: <3r29u3$9vm@Mars.mcs.com> Reply-To: bosullvn@maths.tcd.ie NNTP-Posting-Host: bell.maths.tcd.ie chilton@MCS.COM (Christopher Hilton) writes: > I'm having troubles with smail-3.1.29.1 [...] The solution to this is straightforward: kill all traces of your smail installation, and install sendmail 8.6.whatever-it-is-now instead. I wouldn't presume to try to influence you by offering up several years' worth of pent-up hatred of smail on my part but, really, smail is quite horrible. Mind you, I would not hesitate to say the same of sendmail, but at least it loses in ways that are usually both less obtrusive and better documented. <b -- Let us pray: What a Great System. Please Do Not Crash. bos@serpentine.com ^G^IP@P6 http://www.serpentine.com/~bos