Hi all!
> > So, what's a "mutt_dotlock"?
>
> It's a program (part of the Mutt package) that implements NFS-safe file
> locking. To ensure that different programs do not write to the same
> mailbox at once (thus corrupting it), mutt_dotlock creates a lock file
> in the same directory (that's why the directory has to belong to the
> group `mail', be group-writable, and mutt_dotlock has to be sgid mail).
>
> Check its permissions with
> $ ls -l `which mutt_dotlock`
I user mutt on a nfs-mounted dir. But unfortunatly the systen crashed
during a mutt session (mutt was innocent ;-) and now I can't write to
this dir, mutt always says, that this folder is write-only. I can't find
a lock file. Maybe, the remote box (Solaris) locks it and I can't
convine it to stop locking (I also made `mutt_dotlock -u' on every
folder, without success.
(Now I have a maildir on a local filesys and a soft link to the usual
dir ~/Mail).
What happened and what is to be done to fix it?
TIA!
Ciao for now, Dirk
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Dirk Ruediger, Rostock, Germany
