Re: Problems with 2.0b25

From: Ashley M. Kirchner <ashley_at_pcraft.com_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:38:45 -0600
Message-ID: <38162D74.EBCF68CF_at_pcraft.com>

Martin Schulze wrote:

> a) hypermail -m received -x -c spam.config -p
>
> I get:
>
> hypermail: Couldn't create lock file "received/.hypermail.lock".
>
> Shouldn't this read the configuration from spam.config and process
> `received' like a mailbox in mbox format?

    Your hypermail process doesn't have write permissions to write the lock file. This isn't an mbox problem.

> b) cat received hypermail -c spam.config -p
>
> This processes received, but
>
> . ignores everything written in spam.config and
> . overwrites files in `./archive' instead of appending new mails
> there
>
> Is this the expected behaviour?

    Not sure what's going on here, although I never piped anything through hypermail like this.

    AMK4

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