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List:       freebsd-ports
Subject:    Re: elm:Folder is corrupt!!  I can't read it!!
From:       "John Capo" <jc () irbs ! com>
Date:       1996-02-25 20:01:59
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Boyd R. Faulkner writes:
> 
> Folder is corrupt!!  I can't read it!!
> 
> I often get this message using elm.  elm then exits.  I assume I am trying to
> read the file while it is being updated by procmail.  I can establish dot
> locking from procmail but trying to set elm to do dot locking seems to
> mail the file unreadable.  
> 

Elm only locks folders that it thinks are a SPOOL folder.  My guess
is that you are letting procmail deliver to other folders and
reading them at the same time with elm.

Look at get_folder_type() in src/newmbox.c. I added return(SPOOL);
around line 357 so elm will think everything is a SPOOL file and
lock it properly.

John Capo                                                   jc@irbs.com
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