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From: sboswell@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (....What Is?....)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.lang.c
Subject: Mail server
Summary: Help!
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Date: 23 Dec 90 06:50:54 GMT
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Hi, I don't know which newsgroup to route this to, so here we go
anyways.  I just wrote a "mail server" program that reads my mail file
(on a BSD 4.3 Tahoe system), picks out letters with certain key
subjects, and processes the message body (for instance, it'll send out
help files for a few programs that I made publicly executable.)

The problem is trying to avoid clashes between sendmail and my program.
If the timing is off (which it is a lot more often than I expected),
new letters that are waiting for the file not to be busy get eaten as
soon as I close the file.

How do I get around this?  Please mail replies; I haven't been reading
news regularly lately.

Thanks,
	Steve Boswell
	sboswell@ucsd.edu