Hi Folks,
I'm having an intermittent problem (SuSE-6.3 with KDE & all
the gizmos) with MUAs hanging while retrieving mail from
/var/spool/mail/userid.
When this happens, XFMail simply hangs on it, indefinitely.
Elm announces that it is "attempting to read mail while mail
is being received", retries a number of times, then quits.
However, to the best of my awareness mail is NOT being received
at these times.
Again when it happens, whatever is causing it goes on for a
long time, though it eventually clears (especially if I shut
down preactically everything else including the user's 'kfm').
What I'm trying to find out, is where is the lock-file or other
marker that tells these MUAs that "mail is being received"?
Or how otherwise do they tell that "mail is being received"?
If I could find where that's lurking, I could suppress it.
(Very occasionally, procmail is indeed trying a delivery;
mostly, it isn't: 'ps -aux' shows nothing relevant.)
Any useful hints will be much appreciated.
Best wishes to all,
Ted.
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