Bharadwaj --
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% I suspect this is an FAQ. However, I couldn't
It very well might be :-)
% find the answer. On Tru64 (Digital Unix) I
% configured mutt with --enable-flock --disable-fcntl
% together, only one of them as well as without either
Sure; those can all work well together and the important thing is to make
sure that mutt is configured to use whatever your MDA uses.
% of them. In all cases, when I read my mail with
% the resulting executable and try to save a message,
% I get the following error message:
%
% Couldn't lock <full-path-of-mailbox>
This, on the other hand, sounds like a permissions problem. I will
hazard a guess that this only happens for your mail spool file, which is
probably located under /var/spool/mail or some such, and that you have no
problem with any mailboxes in your personal tree. Your mail spool
directory probably looks something like
drwxrwsr-t 2 root mail .... /var/spool/mail
and that means that only root and the mail group -- and that probably
means *not* you - can write in there. To get around that but not tie so
much power into mutt itself, there is a little binary called mutt_dotlock
which should be installed with mail groupship and with the SGID bit set;
*it* is called by mutt and is what actually does the locking.
%
% If it matters, I have installed the binaries in
% my home directory.
That's another clue that the mutt_dotlock file is not set with special
permission. Check it out.
%
% Can some one please tell me what I am doing wrong?
We'll certainly try!
%
% Thanks,
%
% Bharadwaj
HTH & HAND
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