I am running fedora 8 and my home directory is nfs mounted. When I execute:
echo 'test email using mutt'|mutt -s 'test email using mutt' <myemailaddress> it hangs up for a while (can't interrupt it with cntl-c or background it with cntl-z and bg) and then produces this error message: fcntl: No locks available (errno = 37) Couldn't lock /<myhomedirpath>/sent When I run echo 'test email using mutt'|mail -s 'test email using mutt' <myemailaddress> from the same context, it works immediately. So I am pretty sure it is not sendmail causing the problem. I don't really care whether my outgoing email gets saved in 'sent'. Is there a .muttrc setting that would get mutt to not even try locking and using ~/sent? Are there some other options (don't lock, put sent mail somewhere local/lockable, fix nfs locking)? I tried to RTFM, I must be looking in the wrong places. One obvious option is just use mail instead of mutt, but I like mutt! Mutt makes sending attachments easier. This is not a problem on fedora 7 or 6, I wonder if their packagers changed the default config. Thanks in advance, Dave