On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 04:03:45AM +0000, Jim Breton wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 02:11:46PM -0500, Tim Legant wrote: > > It's a maildir feature that this can't ever happen. > > > > It's a mbox "feature" that you have to use locking to prevent it from > > happening. > > Lol.. yep. > > This is occurring with regular mailboxes. I would have expected Mutt to > do that locking though... no? Yes and no. Mutt has to be compiled with the correct options to do it. Assuming you're on a system where qmail uses flock (not HP/UX or Solaris), configure mutt with --enable-flock. Then they're both talking the same language. Tim