Re: File locking on sshfs file system, possible?

2019-10-28 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 07:29:52PM +, Chris Green wrote: > On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 01:31:57PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > You're probably better off using (local) IMAP over SSH with your Mutt > > mailboxes. That is, you can ssh into your mail server and run imapd > > locally (rather than

Re: File locking on sshfs file system, possible?

2019-10-28 Thread Chris Green
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 01:31:57PM -0500, Derek Martin 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

Re: File locking on sshfs file system, possible?

2019-10-28 Thread Derek Martin
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

Re: File locking on sshfs file system, possible?

2019-10-25 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 10:42:28AM +0100, Chris Green wrote: mutt_dotlock is failing when I try and lock the file across the sshfs file system:- The last time I looked, sshfs's hard link support was insufficient for dotlocking. I believe the hard link count is not increased, (in addition to

Re: File locking on sshfs file system, possible?

2019-10-25 Thread 雨宫恋叶
October 25, 2019 5:42 PM, "Chris Green" wrote: > 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

Re: File locking on sshfs file system, possible?

2019-10-25 Thread Chris Green
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

Re: File locking on sshfs file system, possible?

2019-10-25 Thread Chris Green
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

File locking on sshfs file system, possible?

2019-10-25 Thread Chris Green
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