[tech] Dodgy mutt operation on mermaid

[Jean-Paul Blaquiere]

> On Feb 21, Alastair Irvine scrawled :

> mutt version 1.0.1i, when run on mermaid, seems to always open my mail
> spool file in read-only mode.  This is not the case on mussel.  Any ideas?
> 
this is because the default debian mutt is compiled with:
make --enable-fcntl --disable-flock
it should be the other way around to account for NFS mail spools.
ie: make --disable-fcntl --enable-flock

if someone could od this?

cya,
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