mailpost woes

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi,

>>> That's great, but why doesn't mailpost give an error message?  The mailpost
>>> command was still succeeding - still returning 0 - and there wasn't any
>>> information being logged anywhere to indicate that the problem was that
>>> mailpost either couldn't find the pathtmp directory or couldn't write to it.
>
> There is:
>
>    open LOCKFILE, "<$lockfile" ||
>        open LOCKFILE, ">$lockfile" ||
>        mailArtAndDie ("can't open $lockfile: $!") ;
>
> and if open() does not work, nothing happens...
>
> However, if I put:
>
>    open LOCKFILE, "<$lockfile" or
>        open LOCKFILE, ">$lockfile" or
>        mailArtAndDie ("can't open $lockfile: $!") ;

Oh, it should be written with parenthesis:

    open (LOCKFILE, "<$lockfile") ||
        open (LOCKFILE, ">$lockfile") ||
        mailArtAndDie ("can't open $lockfile: $!") ;

It is a long-standing bug, then.

Nick, I think everything now works fine for you (-b in documentation
and error message if the lockfile cannot be used).

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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