SUMMARY: HELP: problems with mail clients
2007-12-24 22:47:00
Before anyone waste any time on the problems described
below, it turns out the source the problems is that
lockd had died on our server box.
Best,
Paul
The original message:
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I have some mysterious problems related to mailx and pine.
The machine is a Solaris 5.8 box.
The following commands will just hang.
mailx
mailx -f foomail, where foomail is in a user's home directory
cat foomail (after mailx -f foomail has been invoked)
cp foomail foomail2 (after mailx -f foomail has been invoked)
pine will hang if it is accessing mail folders in a user's home directory
and it will hang when it tries to send out mail.
User's home directories are NFS filesystems.
However, mailx -f /var/mail/logname will work and if foomail is moved
to /tmp, then mailx -f foomail will also work.
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