On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:00:09 -0500, David T-G wrote:
> Vincent --
> 
> ...and then Vincent Lefevre said...
> % 
> % It seems that to force the dotlock locking strategy, one needs to use
> % the --with-homespool option. But then, mutt -v says:
> 
> That doesn't make sense; I've had dotlocking with my mail spool under
> /var before.  In fact, the whole reason for having a separate dotlock
> program with its own priv permissions is specifically because of mail
> spools under /var instead of $HOME.

I wasn't talking of a separate dotlock program. I just wanted Mutt
to use the dotlock mechanism (preferably the internal one).

> % MAILPATH="mailbox"
> % 
> % Here, mailbox doesn't correspond to anything. So, is it a problem?
> 
> What if you compile with HOMESPOOL turned off?

With --with-homespool:
+USE_DOTLOCK
MAILPATH="mailbox"

Without --with-homespool:
-USE_DOTLOCK
MAILPATH=""

> % Note that my only spool mailbox is an IMAP mailbox. But I need a locking
> % strategy for the postpone and archive mailboxes (under NFS). As fcntl is
> % not reliable here, I think I'll disable it and use dotlocking only.
> 
> Sounds good.

Well, the lock manager has just been cleaned here, so fcntl is now OK
(for the moment).

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