[tech] Dodgy mutt operation on mermaid

Duncan Sargeant dunc at rcpt.to
Mon Feb 21 17:15:30 WST 2000


Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote on Mon February 21, at 16:15 +0800:
> > 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

Things have changed.  Didn't know you could flock over NFS.

,dunc
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