From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <138575261003171229r1299d1c2v418952b53b9c3b4a@mail.gmail.com> References: <138575261003171229r1299d1c2v418952b53b9c3b4a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:15:54 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx and email From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ec690634-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 your subject says 9vx and email, but your message didn't mention 9vx. assuming you are actually using 9vx, it's important to note that the mail system depends heavily on lock files, and the #Z file system in 9vx, which is what gives you access to the host file system, does not support lock files. you'll only get the right behavior if you're using a native plan 9 file system like fossil or kfs or a network connection to one of those to hold the /mail/queue directory tree. russ