hello, whats this mail.lock file?

i looked up the wiki server:mail entry and don't see it.
for some reason datastream generated that file on the 21st.
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Re: mail.lock file
By: MRO to digital man on Tue Sep 27 2022 05:02 pm

hello, whats this mail.lock file?

i looked up the wiki server:mail entry and don't see it.
for some reason datastream generated that file on the 21st.

Sounds like the data/mail base was locked (e.g. for maintenace, but smbutil). If no Synchronet-utilities are actively doing something with the mail base, it'd be safe to delete the file.
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Re: mail.lock file
By: Digital Man to MRO on Fri Sep 30 2022 01:25 am

Re: mail.lock file
By: MRO to digital man on Tue Sep 27 2022 05:02 pm

hello, whats this mail.lock file?

i looked up the wiki server:mail entry and don't see it.
for some reason datastream generated that file on the 21st.

Sounds like the data/mail base was locked (e.g. for maintenace, but smbutil). If no Synchronet-utilities are actively doing something with the mail base, it'd be safe to delete the file.

yeah i deleted it and everything was fine. datastream runs by itself and has done so for years. i do check on it frequently. there is no mail going through so i found that strange.
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