Re: Mutt loses mail
I can confirm that the problem does not occur when mutt is not run over NFS.
I also am 99% sure that the problem does not occur with Pine, although I can
do some more work to verify this for you if desired.
I shall try to run it under strace tomorrow. I'm sure it will generate a
huge volume of stuff, so not sure if it will be useful, but heck, I'll give
it a shot!
I notice at this point that it doesn't use the liblockfile package that
policy heavily suggests it uses. Policy says:
All Debian MUAs and MTAs have to use the `maillock' and `mailunlock'
functions provided by the `liblockfile' packages to lock and unlock
mail boxes. These functions implement a NFS-safe locking mechanism.
(It is ok if MUAs and MTAs don't link against liblockfile but use a
_compatible_ mechanism. Please compare the mechanisms very carefully!)
On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 11:06:27PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote:
> John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:
> > I believe this was all to have been fixed in 2.1.132ac10, but I shall
> > double check. Also, I am 99% certain that I had the same problem in
> > 2.0.35 but just never pinned it down.
>
> Er.. can you try to reproduce this, with mutt running under strace?
>
> NFS semantics are really scary (basically, what you're having a problem
> with is not guaranteed to work). While I'm willing to believe this is
> a problem in mutt, it's quite plausible that it's purely an nfs issue.
>
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