of the problem -- does majordomo, just to pick the obvious alternative, 
insist on using a single mbox file, and locking it up almost all the time?  

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There's a widow in sleepy Chester
  Who weeps for her only son;
There's a grave on the Pabeng River,
  A grave that the Burmans shun,
And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri
  Who tells how the work was done.
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