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From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Mail being received - retry
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Date: 17 Oct 90 15:39:45 GMT
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I have problem with ELM 2.3 PL8 (Sun 3/50 SunOS 4.1 - mbox NFS mounted)

A series of messages were being delivered to my mbox, whilst I happened
to be reading mail.  This mean elm went through its standard six attempts
to acquire the mbox.lock.  After it failed to get the lock, it exited.
This meant that the 300+ messages I had marked as deleted never got
deleted at all.  Surely, the correct behaviour is give up for some time,
and try later, whilst allowing the user to continue reading the mail
elm has already loaded up?  I admit there is problem when it comes to
actually leaving elm, since it can't rewrite the mbox without a lock.
But should it behave like this when only trying to READ an mbox?

Thanks,
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