Re: Mutt & Read-only Mailboxes
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 03:20:59PM -0500, Ian Melnick wrote:
> I have some mailboxes mounted thru NFS. They are read/writable by me; I
> can do it in any other program. But, mutt claims that they're read-only,
> and I cannot write to them. I've tried using mutt_dotlock but that
> didn't work; I didn't even have any .lock files in my directory. I keep
> pressing '%', but it refuses to allow the mailbox to be writable.
> Anyway, again, it's weird since no other programs seem to have problems
> writing to these boxes.
mutt is capable of writing to them, it just refuses to do so because
it can't lock them properly, which would put you at risk of losing
messages.
To solve this, switch your NFS server over from using the user-space
nfs daemon (which does not support locking) to the kernel-space nfs
daemon (which does support locking). `apt-get install
nfs-kernel-server` should do the trick.
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