Bharadwaj --
...and then [EMAIL PROTECTED] said...
% David,
%
% Thanks for the quick reply.
You're quite welcome.
%
% Although this was happenning on mailboxes that
% live in my user area and that have the right
Really? You mean you had a mailbox in a directory like $HOME/Mail and
the perms on the directory allowed you to write and the mailbox allowed
you to write, so you could do things from the command prompt like touch
an empty new mailbox, and append something to the end of your old
mailbox, and you still had locking problems?
% permissions, setting execute premissions of
Oh, wait a minute -- if mutt_dotlock wasn't even executable, then that
would certainly explain the problem :-)
% mutt_dotlock (they were not set initially)
% did the trick.
How very interesting...
%
% Thanks again,
HAND
%
% Bharadwaj
% (Mutt can bounce AND thread!!
% Time has come to abandon ELM !!)
Of course -- mutt can do everything! ;-)
%
% S. Bharadwaj Yadavalli
% E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
% [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:-D
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