Re: mutt and an nfs mounted home directory
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:36:35PM -0700, Jason Majors wrote:
> I have an nfs mounted home directory where the user and group ids match.
> I can write in the ~/.mutt directory and even edit my inbox and sentbox on the
> client, but when I run mutt on the client machine, it tells me that the mailbox
> is read only.
> Is there a setting in mutt I can change to make it use the file permissions to
> decide whether to write or not?
It's most likely due to mutt not being able to lock your mailbox.
You have three options:
1) Use knfsd instead of nfsd on the nfs server. Quick and easy
(although it does require a kernel reconfigure/rebuild unless you
already have nfs server support in your kernel). This is what I did.
2) Switch your mailboxes over from mbox format to maildir. Probably
quick and easy also, but I still use mbox, so I can't say for sure.
3) Mount /home with the nolock option. Very quick, very easy and
very dangerous. If you do this, you _will_ occasionally lose mail.
Been there, done that, never again.
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