On 06/10/02, 01:46:21PM -0500, David T-G wrote: > % My mail comes via fetchmail from my ISP's POP server. > > I imagine it goes into your home dir somewhere, then, but it could go > into the system mail spool. What does > > :set ?spoolfile > > in mutt tell you? > Says "unknow option" -- which seems consistent with configuration option -HOMESPOOL. FWIW, this is a stand alone machine, hooked to a cable mode, poping mail using fetchmail. > > % > % If I look at the configuration options for 1.2.5, I see -USE_DOTLOCK. > % These settings came via the rpm from Red Hat. 1.4 shows +USE_SETGID and > % +USE_DOTLOCK, plus +DL_STANDALONE. Could these setting be sources of > % the problem? > > Well, it's just a difference rather than a problem. If you turned off > USE_DOTLOCK you wouldn't have to worry about installing the dotlock > program but you'd then have to be sure that other locking worked.
Doesn't procmail (used here) take care of locking? > % Fixed it. Mutt set up SYSCONFDIR as /home/john/mutt1.4/etc > However, it > > Right. > > > % did not copy my Muttrc to it, nor change the path to the manual in > % the F1 macro. > > Now *that* is interesting; I am almost certain it should have done the > copy. You did finish up with a "make install", right? Yep. John
