"Jeffrey C Honig" wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> We could allow MHCONTEXT=/dev/null with the following trivial patch.
>I believe that this is a fix for a symptom, not a problem. >If you have a mail directory (either under ~Mail, or an external >directory) on read-only storage, dot locking will fail. Things like >this are assumed to be part of the flexibility of nmh and should >continue to work. But did that ever work in the first place? The thing that has changed is (I believe) not the mechanics of the locking mechanism but that we now lock the context file (previously there was no locking of it at all). -- PMM _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
