Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!daver!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Mail to/from a BBS (one login, many users) Message-ID: <26936685.6E43@tct.uucp> Date: 5 Jul 90 16:10:45 GMT References: <923@limbo.Intuitive.Com> <2690E240.1006@tct.uucp> Organization: ComDev/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 13 According to peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva): >[Lock files in /tmp are] a lose on a network, because different systems >have different ideas of what "/tmp" is. Well, that's a good point. >In any case... if you're on a network, stick to $MAIL.lock. BTW, Deliver knows how to do $MAIL.lock. Elm only bothers for "real" mailboxes, i.e. those in the system mail directory. That's easy enough to change, though, with a bit of source code hacking. -- Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT ,