Description of problem:

slocal: unable to perform dbm_open on
/home/users/miller/apps/etc/Mail/.maildelivery: No such file or directory

even though

 ll /home/users/miller/apps/etc/Mail/.maildelivery

   8 -rw-------    1 miller   miller       5589 Nov  6 17:48
/home/users/miller/apps/etc/Mail/.maildelivery


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

nmh-1.0.4-20

How reproducible:

Every time slocal is invoked, the error message is given.

Steps to Reproduce:

slocal is invoked with a script with the following parameters

           slocal -info "${msg_dir}" -maildelivery ${maildelivery} \
                  -suppressdup -user ${USER} < ${msg_dir}/${msg}
  
Actual results:

maildelivery.db does not get updated.

Removing the old maildelivery.db results in an empty maildelivery.db
file being created, but never updated.

Expected results:

slocal should read the maildelivery file without complaining and
update maildelivery.db.

Additional info:

Whilst using the previous version of slocal under Red Hat 9, slocal
was working as expected.  Now, after upgrading to Fedora Core 1, this
problem has appeared.  Therefore the problem has arisen due to a
change in slocal in the different versions.