On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 10:14:28AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 08:58:06AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > I just tried running mutt 'remotely' by mounting ~/.muttrc and my main
> > mail directory ~/Mail using sshfs and running a local copy of mutt.
> > This makes handling attachments and HTML E-Mail much faster and easier
> > than running mutt on the remote system via ssh.
> >
> > However when I try and save E-Mails into the ~/Mail hierarchy it
> > complains that it can't lock the mbox file. I guess that there's some
> > sort of incompatibility between mutt's default locking method and
> > sshfs.
> >
> > Is there anything I can do about this? I.e. can I build mutt with a
> > different locking method (or more the point the dotlock program I
> > suppose) or am I basically stuck? I know I could move to maildir but
> > I'd prefer not to really and that would likely slow things down across
> > an sshfs connection.
> >
> A little more information:-
>
> I'm running mutt 1.10.1 on xubuntu 19.04
>
> The actual error I'm seeing is "Couldn't lock
> /home/chris/Mail/folder/test"
> (Obviously changes according to name of destination mbox)
>
> So is it not a locking problem, rather a permission problem? My UID
> on both systems is the same so files in the ~/Mail directory are all
> owned by me on both systems.
>
Even more information!
mutt_dotlock is failing when I try and lock the file across the
sshfs file system:-
chris@t470$ mutt_dotlock /home/chris/Mail/folder/test/fred
chris@t470$ echo $?
1
chris@t470$
(The folder Mail is an sshfs mount)
There is no permission problem for me to create files:-
chris@t470$ ls -al /home/chris/Mail/folder/test
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 1 chris chris 4096 Oct 25 10:38 .
drwxrwxr-x 1 chris chris 4096 Oct 25 10:35 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 chris chris 0 Oct 25 10:25 fred
chris@t470$ touch /home/chris/Mail/folder/test/fred.lock
chris@t470$ ls -al /home/chris/Mail/folder/test
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 1 chris chris 4096 Oct 25 10:40 .
drwxrwxr-x 1 chris chris 4096 Oct 25 10:35 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 chris chris 0 Oct 25 10:25 fred
-rw-rw-r-- 1 chris chris 0 Oct 25 10:40 fred.lock
`
So how do I diagnose what the actual error is? Is mutt_dotlock trying
to run as 'mail' rather than 'chris'?
--
Chris Green
