Hi Alan,   
      
   Hope you had a great Christmas and New Year!   
      
   >>> 181231 21:15 Message base locked   
      
   >>ahhh... and there's nothing further back indicating an abort or exiting error   
   >> condition?   
      
   >Not that I have seen. I'm looking at all this now so I'll have a closer look a   
   > the logs too.   
      
   >So far it looks like using the gotmail.bz script is not going to work for me s   
   > I will need to find another way to toss mail. Maybe I'll run a cron job   
   > periodically.   
      
   I use a cron job here as below:   
      
   */10 * * * *  /home/bbbs/mailin.sh   
   */16 * * * *  /home/bbbs/mailout.sh   
      
   Here's the content of mailin.sh:   
   #!/bin/sh   
   cd /home/bbbs   
   ./bbbs bogus w > /dev/null 2>&1   
   ./bbbs btick > /dev/null 2>&1   
   exit   
      
   Here's the content of mailout.sh:   
   #!/bin/sh   
   cd /home/bbbs   
   ./bbbs bogus r > /dev/null 2>&1   
   exit   
      
   Hope this helps :)   
      
   Take care,   
   Janis   
      
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