John P. Looney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 15 Nov 1999:
> I'm using 1.1.1 and 1.0, and both are giving me the same problems.
I had to read your message twice before I noticed the error in the
Subject line. I think I read somewhere some sort of hints for email
writing which included the suggestion "never assume the reader has read
the subject line". Seems to be true enough.
> My home directory is mounted over NFS, but the mutt_dotlock program is
> there, and set gid'd. lockd is running. When I ran the configure script
> to compile mutt, I gave it a --enable-flock option, hoping it would go
> away. No luck. A few questions:
Enabling flock will likely not help with fcntl problems, even if I don't
know that much about file locking. You could try --disable-fcntl in
addition to --enable-flock. (That's how I compile my Mutt, anyway.)
On the other hand, depending on what file locking methods your MDA uses,
this could be dangerous and you could lose mail.
> Why is it trying to make locks, if I'm using IMAP ?
Because it likely is trying to access your default incoming spool
folder, which it thinks is local (/var/spool/mail/<username> or
something, probably).
Try setting $spoolfile in your .muttrc, eg
set spoolfile={gpo}inbox
> What can I do to stop the locks ?
See above for the compile directive to disable fcntl at least.
> Can I get mutt to startup, and try read {gpo}inbox when it starts up
> ?
Sure, by specifying the right spoolfile. Mutt uses the contents of the
MAIL environment variable by default, but I'm not sure if it's a good
idea to specify {gpo}inbox there as some other programs may end up
thinking this is a literal filename.
Disclaimer: I don't use IMAP so I'm not sure if there's any limitations
to whether you can use an IMAP folder as the spoolfile setting, but I
can't see why not.
Hope this helps,
Mikko
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