John -- ...and then John P Verel said... % % On 06/10/02, 01:46:21PM -0500, David T-G wrote: % ... % > :set ?spoolfile % > % > in mutt tell you? % > % Says "unknow option" -- which seems consistent with configuration option
Now *that* is odd. Do you not set spoolfile in your muttrc? What if you try to change folders to ! (that's the folder name); does it work? % -HOMESPOOL. FWIW, this is a stand alone machine, hooked to a cable That tells me that your mail should be found in /var/*/mail rather than in your home dir, so you probably *do* need a mutt_dotlock with mail group perms to do dotlocking -- though, again, your system one might be found and do the job. % mode, poping mail using fetchmail. Still, I've never seen a setup that doesn't have a spoolfile :-) % > ... % > 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? Not when you're saving a message to another folder; mutt has to lock a mailbox when it writes to it or cleans it. % ... % > % > Now *that* is interesting; I am almost certain it should have done the % > copy. You did finish up with a "make install", right? % Yep. Interesting... % % John HTH & HAND :-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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