On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 20:55:43 +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
> So why didn't you report it with all the details necessary to fix it?
I did, but noone replied. See messages
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Before, I thought that there was a problem with the mail server.
But this time the mail server was OK, and there's no reason why
configure detected /var/mail as not world-writable.
> > And I still don't see why Mutt looks at /var/mail since in general,
> > I don't use it (all my mail is stored to my $HOME directory).
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> I'd say configure cannot guess how the MTA on your system is configured.
Why not a --enable-dotlock option as I suggested?
> Or is it just your personal setup?
Yes, it is my personal setup.
> Have you tried
>
> --with-mailpath=DIR Directory where spool mailboxes are located
What does mailpath do? There's nothing in the manual.
> Or have you any other suggestions how to fix this? Should configure
> maybe take $MAIL into account if other methods fail?
It's difficult to say. Mutt could look at the $MAILPATH variable, and
if it is empty, it could look at the $MAIL variable. But I don't think
this is a good method, since mailboxes may be located in different
directories; for instance, I used to have my personal mail in /var/mail/
and mailing-list mail in $HOME/Mail. Moreover, there could be transcient
problems with the NFS servers. IMHO, Mutt should dynamically decide the
locking method to use. Here, I'd like the following method:
If dotclock can be used, it is chosen as the preferred locking
method. Otherwise, fcntl is used.
I prefer dotlock, because it is faster than fcntl under NFS.
Of course, I could use Maildir instead of the mbox format, but procmail
doesn't support Maildir directly, and as I'm not the sysadmin, I prefer
to use as few programs as possible (I had problems in the past with OS
or even machine changes).
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