Subject: HP "sent-mail is locked" ERROR

From: [email-masked] (Timothy Kulig)
Date: 3 Aug 1994 04:44:44 GMT

After I do a Control-X to send a letter, it freezes like that on my screen,
I'm not sure what I compiled wrong, but apparently I did. It does this 
countdown thing, sayes that it has 280 seconds before it unlocks it.
Every 5 seconds or so, it beeps. 

Here the situation I'm trying to setup:

On an HP9000/832 I have just UUCP mail feed to my home computer
which has a slip connection off the internet. I have my HP, uucico
into my home computer on an hourly basis.

I just started working there 3 months ago. 

Mail has been working fine as far as UUCP, but when I first started using
pine on the HP, I noticed it said it could not access sendmail in :
/usr/lib/sendmail. I noticed the permissions set 000. So it could not
be accessed. (Actually when it's like that everything works fine.)
So now I turn on sendmail with 777 permissions and use pine, and I
get that stupid 'Folder "sent-mail" is locked, Blah Blah.'

I don't know what to do. I love Pine and want to use it there.

Can someone help me?

Please!

[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Noel Hunter)
Date: 7 Aug 1994 06:48:56 GMT

Timothy Kulig ([email-masked]) wrote:

: Mail has been working fine as far as UUCP, but when I first started using
: pine on the HP, I noticed it said it could not access sendmail in :
: /usr/lib/sendmail. I noticed the permissions set 000. So it could not
: be accessed. (Actually when it's like that everything works fine.)
: So now I turn on sendmail with 777 permissions and use pine, and I
: get that stupid 'Folder "sent-mail" is locked, Blah Blah.'

It sounds like it is the _file_ "sent-mail" within the "mail" 
subdirectory in your home directory that is causing the problem, and not
"sendmail" in /usr/lib.  The problem could be improper permissions on the
home directory (or any parent directory), the mail subdirectory, or the
actual sent-mail file. It could also be caused by NFS file locking if you
are mounting your home directory.  The NFS file locking problem is fixed
by several patches. 

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