Xref: utzoo comp.mail.elm:3235 comp.sys.apollo:6887 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!usage.csd.unsw.oz.au!spinifex!spectrum!ashley From: ashley@usage.csd.oz (Ashley Aitken) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.sys.apollo Subject: Elm on HP-Apollo Domain's : Problem! Message-ID: <692@spinifex.eecs.unsw.oz> Date: 24 Oct 90 10:30:05 GMT Sender: ashley@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Ashley Aitken) Reply-To: ashley@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Ashley Aitken) Organization: none Lines: 41 G'day. Elm is a wonderful mailer and I don't know how I would live without it! Thanks to all those that develop, maintain, test and distribute it! However, there seems to be some difficulty with using Elm on HP-Apollo Domain's.In particular, the Apollo machines seem to not allow appending to a file which is being read (ie opened in read, or read-write? mode) by someone else. Hence, if I am reading mail and someone mails me, the mail bounces with an error like this: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 1 ... Transcript ... mail: /usr/spool/mail/ashley: cannot append Mail saved in dead.letter 554 ashley... unknown mailer error 1 This is causing understandable distress to the System Supervisor who constantly needs to forward the dead mail to me. It seems mostly to occur when I am using Elm, but sometimes even when I am not - perhaps there are some fragments of a hung Elm session lying around or it left the file open? I compiled Elm for these machines myself (without complete confidence that I got it right, but other than this problem it seems to work almost better than perfectly). Any suggestions on how I can save Elm from being purged would be gratefully accepted. I am sure there are other Apollo sites out there using Elm. Thanx in Advance, Ashley Aitken. -- E-MAIL ashley@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au AARNet ashley%spectrum.cs.unsw.oz@uunet.uu.net Internet {uunet,ukc,ubc-vision}!munnari!spectrum.cs.unsw.oz!ashley UUCP POSTAL Academic Address: Residential Address: School of EE and CS, (Rm 345) c/o Basser College, (Rm 123-4) University of New South Wales, The Kensington Colleges, Box 1,PO KENSINGTON,N.S.W.,2033, Box 24,PO KENSINGTON,3033. AUSTRALIA. AUSTRALIA. Ph. (02) 697-4419 Fx. (02) 662-2087 Ph. Aust (02) 663-8117