On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 03:04:46AM -0500, Ken W wrote:
> I have some questions/problems with mutt_dotlock.  My problem may be
> obvious, so sorry if so.  I do not have root on this system and run
> mutt from $HOME/bin.  Because of this, every time I build mutt, I
> disable setgid and dotlock.  Since I recently became aware that since
> my mailboxes are mbox format, I may be at risk of losing mail.  So, I
> put mutt_dotlock into $HOME/bin and rebuilt mutt without disabling
> dotlock and now it cannot read my spool folder from /var/mail.  

I'd suggest you try to convince your system administrator to install
a privileged version of mutt_dotlock at some proper location on your
system.  You can then use it from your own mutt installations.

tlr
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