Re: Write protected mailbox, mutt
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 05:40:12AM +0200, Jocke wrote
> Hi all,
>
> I did ask this a while ago but never got any real answers
> so I will try again with some more information.
>
> I am using fetchmail, exim, mutt to handle my mailing and
> I have one .forward file to redirect all my debian list
> mails to its own mailbox.
> Lately I have been having problems that this mailbox is
> write protected and I can not delete any mails.
> I used to believe this was caused by exim locking the mailbox
> because I could sometimes delete mails.
> But now I use fetchmail like this:
>
[...snip...]
I tried mutt 1.0 and had similar problems, which I attributed
to NFS locking issues (my mailbox is NFS-mounted from a Linux
2.0.37 server); does your mailbox live on an NFS volume?
John P.
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