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Re: Mutt 1.4-1 opens mbox read-only
* Jason Tishler <jason@tishler.net> [24-07-02 14:37]:
> I started to get the read-only mbox problem myself. I
> determined that if mutt cannot dotlock an mbox then it will open it
> read-only. This can easily tested by using mutt_dotlock:
>
> $ mutt_dotlock -t /var/spool/mail/jt
> $ echo $?
> 5
>
> If you get a "5" (instead of "0"), then the permissions of
> /var/spool/mail are not correct.
>
> Please try running mutt_dotlock -t on your mbox. Does it indicate
> incorrect permissions?
After building the package again with --enable-external-dotlock, I get
the mutt_dotlock.exe and my mboxes are writeable, everythings fine.
All mboxes got a "0" on this test.
Jens
$ diff -u makemutt makemutt.new
--- makemutt 2002-07-27 02:44:28.000000000 +0200
+++ makemutt.new 2002-07-25 20:20:20.000000000 +0200
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
export MAILPATH=/var/spool/mail
OPTS="--with-mailpath=/var/spool/mail --with-regex --enable-pop
--enable-imap --enable-locales-fix --with-ssl \
+--enable-external-dotlock \
--enable-buffy-size \
--prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
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