Re: [Nmh-workers] problems with slocal

[Peter Maydell]

address@hidden wrote:
>I've discovered that slocal eventually times out (when run manually),
>and that it only hangs if the maildrop it would deliver to exists.
>If invoked with something like -maildrop /tmp/$USER, it exits
>immediately after processing .maildelivery

This sounds like maybe you've run into bug 25043:
  https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?25043

slocal doesn't cope with the case where (a) you've compiled
nmh with dot-locking and (b) /var/mail isn't writeable by users.

Assuming this is the case then there are two possible
fixes/workarounds:

(1) if you're on Linux, install liblockfile and build nmh to use it
(2) don't use slocal to deliver mail to the system mbox file

-- PMM