Hello,
Rebecca Lynne Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 14 Jun 2000:
> to start it and it hangs while trying to open my mail folder.
>
> All I get is:
> Reading /usr/mail/rsutton...
> The same thing happens if I try to start with other folders besides my
> inbox.
This, and because upgrading to Mutt 1.2 didn't help, well one thing that
could possibly have stopped working is mutt_dotlock. This is a tiny
program that's usually installed suid root (or sugrp mail), so that it
can lock the incoming mail folder in /usr/spool/mail for any user.
Using it also means that Mutt itself doesn't need to be suid root or
sugrp mail. And when you upgrade from one Mutt version to another, the
dotlock program stays the same, it doesn't need to be modified to give
special permissions again.
Because Mutt apparently still works but things suddenly stopped working,
it could be that someone changed mutt_dotlock (maybe removing the
suid/sugrp?)... It might not be that, but it's worth checking.
Hope this helps,
Mikko
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I havent't lost my mind -- I'm sure it is backed up somewhere.
