What is movemail?

[Charles Curley]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 07:36:18PM -0700, Neil Hodge wrote:
> All:
> 
> When trying to retrieve my local mail using thunderbird (0.7.1), I get 
> the following error:
> 
> Unable to create lock file /var/spool/mail/user.lock. . . .
> 
> I have tried just about every way I know (google, man page, "find .") to 
> find out what movemail is, but to no avail.  Anyone out there know?  Thanks.

It is a program for moving mail. It is part of Emacs, and
Netscape/Mozilla use it for that. You may have to have emacs installed
to have it.

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