From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9653 invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2002 12:36:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 9644 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2002 12:36:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.comcast.net) (24.153.64.2) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 24 Jul 2002 12:36:53 -0000 Received: from althea.tishler.net (bgp572446bgs.eatntn01.nj.comcast.net [68.39.6.197]) by mtaout06.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 13 2002)) with SMTP id <0GZR00JZN6YOPB@mtaout06.icomcast.net> for cygwin@cygwin.com; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:35:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: by althea.tishler.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:37:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:34:00 -0000 From: Jason Tishler Subject: Re: Mutt 1.4-1 opens mbox read-only In-reply-to: <20020722202048.GA21538@trash.net> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-followup-to: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: <20020724123728.GA1556@tishler.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i References: <20020722202048.GA21538@trash.net> X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg01924.txt.bz2 Jens, On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:20:49PM +0200, Jens Schuessler wrote: > I've compiled Mutt now with --enable-dotlock=NO IMO, the above is a bad idea because you are defeating one of the standard ways to lock a file to prevent corruption if there are multiple writers (e.g., mutt and procmail). While installing Cygwin exim yesterday, I *may* have stumbled onto your problem. After changing the permissions of /var/spool/mail to meet the needs of exim, I started to get the read-only mbox problem myself. I determined that if mutt cannot dotlock an mbox then it will open it read-only. This can easily tested by using mutt_dotlock: $ mutt_dotlock -t /var/spool/mail/jt $ echo $? 5 If you get a "5" (instead of "0"), then the permissions of /var/spool/mail are not correct. Please try running mutt_dotlock -t on your mbox. Does it indicate incorrect permissions? Jason -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/