Mail Being Lost Again

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

Hello,

At the beginning of January, I reported that mutt was losing mail.  This
behavior *appeared* to disappear with a certain kernel upgrade, but again it
persists.  Losing mail is a very serious system failure.

I do not know what may have changed to cause the failure again, but it is
here.

I am using mutt 0.95.1 as the client, and sendmail 8.9.2 is the server. 
/var/spool/mail is NFS-mounted from the server.

Also, whenever I shut down the client (an Alpha box), it displays:

  lockd_down: no lockd running

but I cannot find any lockd or even any mention of it anywhere under /etc.

I have tried both with and without libnfslock.

I have been stymied in my search for a solution by manpages such as nfs(5)
that date back to:

Linux 0.99               20 November 1993                       4

I have tried enabling mandatory locking even though it is irrelevant.

Please, can someone shed light on this?  It is a very serious problem.

-- 
John Goerzen   Linux, Unix consulting & programming   jgoerzen@complete.org |
Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade)       www.debian.org |
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