On Wed, 30 May 2001, Clifton Royston wrote:

> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:09:36AM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote:
> > In *theory* and in the worst case, I think that in server mode lost
> > mail could result in some combination of circumstances, like a user
> > reading mail with a carelessly implemented shell mail client, plus
> > using POP at the same time, plus mail arrives during the POP session. 
> 
>   Ugh.
> 
>   I just got confirmation of this; it's no theory.  One of our tech
> support people was using sudo + pine to try to fix a user's spool file,

passwd -l is your friend.

AB

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