On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:36:35PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote: > I have an nfs mounted home directory where the user and group ids match. > I can write in the ~/.mutt directory and even edit my inbox and sentbox on the > client, but when I run mutt on the client machine, it tells me that the > mailbox > is read only. > Is there a setting in mutt I can change to make it use the file permissions to > decide whether to write or not?
It's most likely due to mutt not being able to lock your mailbox. You have three options: 1) Use knfsd instead of nfsd on the nfs server. Quick and easy (although it does require a kernel reconfigure/rebuild unless you already have nfs server support in your kernel). This is what I did. 2) Switch your mailboxes over from mbox format to maildir. Probably quick and easy also, but I still use mbox, so I can't say for sure. 3) Mount /home with the nolock option. Very quick, very easy and very dangerous. If you do this, you _will_ occasionally lose mail. Been there, done that, never again. -- With the arrest of Dimitry Sklyarov it has become apparent that it is not safe for non US software engineers to visit the United States. - Alan Cox "To prevent unauthorized reading..." - Adobe eBook reader license
