[Gllug] another mutt question

[Tom Gilbert]

* Richard Cohen (richard at vmlinuz.org) wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 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)'
> >
> > is there a way to make mutt ignore flocking? curiously pine works well in this
> > situtation ...
> 
> Have a look at http://www.washington.edu/pine/tech-notes/low-level.html#NFS
> to see what the pine authors think about mail over NFS.  In short, they
> don't really like it, but since people do it, they take precautions to make
> sure things don't break too badly.  The last paragraph of the Pine-and-NFS
> stuff is:
> 
> "If other mail readers besides Pine are involved, all bets are off.
> Typically, mailers don't take any precautions against a user opening a
> mailbox more than once and no special precautions are taken to prevent NFS
> problems."

mutt does take precautions however.

bredroll: are you running nfs lockd?

Tom.
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