Re: Locking strategies and MAILPATH

2002-07-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 22:25:58 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 04:21:24PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: | On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 08:58:42 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 09:39:52AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: | | I prefer to

Re: Locking strategies and MAILPATH

2002-07-22 Thread David Clarke
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Vincent Lefevre wrote: 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. Perhaps try maildir mailboxes for

Re: Locking strategies and MAILPATH

2002-07-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 16:49:09 +1000, David Clarke wrote: Perhaps try maildir mailboxes for the mailboxes on NFS, that should help prevent problems with locking. I prefer to keep the mbox format for these mailboxes, because this makes easier for other operations (like grepping or copying

Re: Locking strategies and MAILPATH

2002-07-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 09:39:52AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: | On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 16:49:09 +1000, David Clarke wrote: | Perhaps try maildir mailboxes for the mailboxes on NFS, that should help | prevent problems with locking. | | I prefer to keep the mbox format for these mailboxes,

Re: Locking strategies and MAILPATH

2002-07-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 08:58:42 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 09:39:52AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: | I prefer to keep the mbox format for these mailboxes, because this | makes easier for other operations (like grepping or copying them). grep -r cp

Re: Locking strategies and MAILPATH

2002-07-22 Thread David T-G
Vincent -- ...and then Vincent Lefevre said... % % On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:00:09 -0500, David T-G wrote: % % ...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: % %

Re: Locking strategies and MAILPATH

2002-07-22 Thread David T-G
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

Re: Locking strategies and MAILPATH

2002-07-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:25:08 -0500, David T-G wrote: Hmmm... I see what you mean; there's not --use-dotlock switch. Well, you could --enable-external-dotlock to force it, even though you'd then have the external program. [Why don't you like that, though?] An additional

Re: Locking strategies and MAILPATH

2002-07-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
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

Re: Locking strategies and MAILPATH

2002-07-22 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 04:21:24PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: | On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 08:58:42 -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 09:39:52AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: | | I prefer to keep the mbox format for these mailboxes, because this | | makes easier for