[Gllug] another mutt question

[Andy Smith]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 10:02:00AM +0000, bredroll at irwin.dsh.org.uk wrote:
> Reply-To: 
> Hi all,
> 
> ok heres the deal, i have the mail directory from my server mounted over
> nfs in my home network (please no banter about security issues of nfs)
> 
> as my workstation frequently packs up, i figured nfs soft mount, 
> 
> problem, file locking appears to fail so mutt wont let me write to mailboxes...
> 
> 'fcntl: No locks available (errno = 37)'

Along with what other posters have suggested, have you considered
using Maildir format mailboxes, as they don't require locking at
all.  You will however need to patch Pine to understand them (but
mutt is fine, ya for mutt as always).


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