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Re: Mutt 1.4-1 opens mbox read-only


Jens,

On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:20:49PM +0200, Jens Schuessler wrote:
> I've compiled Mutt now with --enable-dotlock=NO

IMO, the above is a bad idea because you are defeating one of the
standard ways to lock a file to prevent corruption if there are multiple
writers (e.g., mutt and procmail).

While installing Cygwin exim yesterday, I *may* have stumbled onto your
problem.  After changing the permissions of /var/spool/mail to meet the
needs of exim, 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?

Jason

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