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In <1993Jan7.151345.1819@julian.uwo.ca> kinch@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Dave Kinchlea) writes:


| SUFFICIENT (but probably not necessary) Ingredients
| ---------------------------------------------------
| 	- Personal Iris 4.0.1 - fileserver
| 	- NeXTStation 2.1     
| 	- Ethernet LAN running TCP/IP 
| 	- NeXTMail 2.0 (v63)  
| 	- mbox residing on Iris and has 250 deleted but not compacted
| messages (NeXTMail keeps deleted mail messages around until the
| Compact command is given -- well I didn't know this ;-()

Unfortunately, you don't provide much info about what is going
on.  If you are NFS exporting (r/w) the mail spool directory, that
is generally agreed on to be a poor idea, partly because of
locking issues.  Ask on comp.sys.mail if you really
want to know why people constantly have problems doing it
in heterogenous environments.

You may be running afoul of some of the NFS locking issues.
405 IRIX has a whole new lockd (and 405C has one with a
couple of minor ;) bugs fixed; in fact, the new lockd is one
of two files in the 405C patch).
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