From: Ashley M. Kirchner (ashley@pcraft.com)
Date: Tue Oct 26 1999 - 17:38:45 CDT
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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