On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:43:52PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:

> > Dotlocking will create a file /var/spool/mail/vdanen.lock.
> > In order to do this, mutt_dotlock needs write access to
> > that directory, which is normally enabled by making
> > mutt_dotlock setgid mail.
> 
> To illustrate things, here's an example from my system:
> 
> % ls -ld /var/spool/mail /var/spool/mail/roessler /usr/local/bin/mutt_dotlock
> -rwxr-sr-x   1 root     mail        24231 Jun 20 10:32 /usr/local/bin/mutt_dotlock
> drwxrwsr-x   2 root     mail         1024 Jun  8 16:56 /var/spool/mail
> -rw-rw----   1 roessler mail            0 Apr 18 16:19 /var/spool/mail/roessler
> 
> (The spool file is actually unused since my mail gets
> delivered to a maildir folder in $HOME.)

Ok, that looks no different than mine.  Mine *should* work then,
right?  I'm really confused as to why it isn't working then... =(

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