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From: eeidson@eng.AUburn.EDU (Eric Eidson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xmail
Message-ID: <9008100214.AA16534@eng.auburn.edu>
Date: 10 Aug 90 02:14:04 GMT
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|> From: Bengt Larsson <bengtl@maths.lth.se>
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|> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 90 03:34:36 +0200
|> To: eeidson@eng.auburn.edu
|> Subject: Re: Xmail
|> Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
|> In-Reply-To: <9008091746.AA05654@eng.auburn.edu>
|> Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
|> Cc: bengtl@maths.lth.se
|> Status: R
|> 
|> In article <9008091746.AA05654@eng.auburn.edu> you write:
|> >I'm not real familiar with X programming, so this is liable to be real simp|> le:
|> >
|> >I'm trying to compile xmail on a Sun SPARC 1 running SunOS 4.0.3, soon to 
|> >upgrade to 4.1.  However, I can compile xmail fine, but when I run it, it
|> >does not quite work like I thought. If their is no mail waiting, nothing is
|> >wrong.  However if mail is waiting, or I try to look at any new mail that 
|> >comes in while I am using xmail, the message Establishing Connections comes
|> >up in the middle bar and then xmail hangs.  I'm running it under X11R4 with
|> >all of the patches (1-14).  
|> 
|> I have heard of Xmail before, but I can't seem to find it, either in the
|> R4 distribution or in "contrib" on expo. Do you know where I can get it?
|> Tips would be appreciated.
|> 
|> BTW, I have the exact same environment as you have (SS 1,SunOS 4.03,X11R4).
|> 
|> About the problem: Does xmail use the same method of locking the mailbox
|> as /usr/ucb/mail does? Did you run your tests when the mail directory was
|> mounted via NFS? That could make a difference.
|> 
|> Bengt Larsson.
|> 
|> -- 
|> Bengt Larsson - Dep. of Math. Statistics, Lund University, Sweden
|> Internet: bengtl@maths.lth.se             SUNET:    TYCHE::BENGT_L

Thanks for your suggestion, I am running through NFS, but xmail is only a 
front-end to mail.

I got it from uunet.uu.net in

/comp.sources.x/volume6/xmail/part0{1 2 3 4 5 6}
/comp.sources.x/volume7/xmail/patch1.0{1 2 3 4 5}

The patches are shar files and must be unshared and then cat together to run 
correctly.  

To more acurately specify my problem, xmail  core dumps whenever I try to open
a folder.  (They aren't that big).  Thanks!!

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