[ Bill writes: ]
>
> [ Dave Wolfe writes: ]
>
> >> I got a similar message, and couldn't figure out why... (Below I replaced
> >> the real user's name in the message with [use name]):
> >>
> >> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> >> UX:rmail: ERROR: Creation of lockfile failed for [use name] after 10
> tries
> >> UX:rmail: ERROR: Cannot lock mailbox
> >
> >This has nothing to do with Mj. "rmail" (apparently your mail delivery
> >program) is encountering an orphaned lock.
>
> Well... My mail transport is sendmail, running on a BSD system. But, upon
> reading the man page for rmail, it looks like rmail gets invoked to be an
> intemediary between an inbound uucp transmission and sendmail. Now, the
> mail message in question came from a Majordomo mailing list subscriber, so I
> don't know how rmail (or uucp for that matter) got in the picture, but
> somehow the above error message popped up.
Look in your sendmail.cf. Sendmail has to use some program for local
delivery. Try doing something like (substituting the correct path and
user name):
echo test ignore me | /usr/lib/sendmail -v [use name]
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Dave Wolfe
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