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From: mi@ALDAN.algebra.com (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Waiting to read mailbox...
Date: 22 Jan 1996 18:18:33 GMT
Organization: Aldan at Newton Upper Falls
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To: mitch4@netcom.com (mitch goldstrom)
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Honorable mitch goldstrom
wrote on Jan 19, 1996 (in article <mitch4DLG3Fu.7A2@netcom.com>):
=I just accepted all of the defaults when I ran Config.
=
=Now, when I run elm not as root, it says
=Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received, then
=it bombs.
Check the existence and permissions on other mailboxes. Wait for
someone to tell you how to unlock the locked files (wait, are
there any /var/mail/.<user>.lock files? Remove them, carefully).
-mi
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