Brett -- ...and then Brett H. Williams said... % % Hi all,
Hello! % % I just started using Mutt last week, and have really loved it. Yay for you, and welcome! % % I was using 1.2.5, but I wanted %E in index_format, so I grabbed 1.3.28i. Good idea, especially since 1.2.5 has a security hole. % % Now I have a new problem, which is that my mailbox is considered read-only. I % am just using my spoolfile over NFS. Everything was working great before the % upgrade. While it could be an NFS locking issue, it's probably a mutt_dotlock issue. You will probably find that you don't have permission to create a .lock file in the mail spool directory, and if mutt expects to do that but cannot then it won't consider the mailbox writable. What does ls -dl `which mutt` `which mutt_dotlock` `dirname $MAIL` give you? If mutt_dotlock is owned by you instead of root, that's probably your problem. Fortunately it's easily fixed by getting rid of the mutt_dotlock you just installed; the 1.2.5 one will still be in your path and mutt (yours, 1.2.5, or any other one whose user has the original dotlock program in $PATH) will happily use it. Now, if that isn't the case, shoot us a mutt -v printout and tell us more about your mail spool setup and we'll see what we can see. % % Is there a change in the way mutt handles this? Nope. % % % P.S. % % I wanted to use the $hide_missing, but even under 1.3.28i it claims it is an % invalid variable. Is this a future feature or am I still not getting the % latest version? Hmmm... I'm running 1.3.28 and, although I do have quite a cocktail of patches, I don't need any patch to set $hide_missing. I believe it was integrated into the build around 1.3.25, though I'm not positive; I have patch-1.3.24-de-new_threads.3 (though I'm not using it for my build, I promise) which has hide_missing in it and so it can't have been too far after that. So when you're in mutt and you type :set ?hide_missing you get an error? :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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