ms> The locking policies can be controlled through three ms> mechanisms (by descending precedence): ms> - Specification on the movemail command line. ms> - Specification of an environment variable EMACSLOCKMETHOD ms> with the same possible values as the --mail-locking argument ms> to configure. ms> - Configuration via autoconf and src/config.h. Stephen> Obviously XEmacs shouldn't be allowed to specify locking methods not Stephen> implemented on the system in question. How do you plan to handle that Stephen> given the precedence specified above? Or is this not a problem? Stephen> Maybe XEmacs should bitch on startup (disabled through a site-start Stephen> facility) if the environment variable or the 'mail-lock-variable is Stephen> set to something strange for the system. Right, point taken. Thanks for the note! -- Cheers =8-} Chipsy Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla