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[Bernd Felsche]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 01:13:15PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> Also, Eudora with a network mail spool is a PITA. If it ever dies,
> it leaves a stale lock file. The user can opt to continue despite
> the lock file, but it won't then remove the lock file when it
> exits, so the stale lock warning will appear at each launch until
> the admin manually removes it. *sigh*. You can disable creation of
> the lock file, but then it'll destroy its own mail spools if the
> user has Eudora in the windows quick launch bar and double clicks
> on it (starting two copies).

Automatic removal is possible if your server is running Samba.
I've set up one site to automagically clean the stale lock files
every hour or so.

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