On Fri, Feb 1, 2002, Will Yardley wrote: > > Since NFS's locking mechanism is broken, I would recommend using > > Maildir. > > i think he meant that mutt itself is mounted on the NFS share. i > wouldn't do this unless i had to, and i can imagine it might cause some > problems, but shouldn't be a big deal.... > > if you don't have root access on the machine, maybe the admin could make > you a directory on a local disc you could install mutt into? > > is the filer something fairly robust like a netapp? in that case i'd > feel a bit less weird about it... we have customers who compile and run > stuff with few problems on our netapp (from linux client machines)...
Well here's the deal. /home is NFS-mounted. My spool folder is in /var/spool/mail. My other mail folders are in ~/Mail. I run my own build of mutt from ~/bin. Does this help? :) -Ken
