Michael Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey guys. I'm using mutt 1.2 on HP/UX 10.20, and I keep running into
problems with corrupt mailboxes. My inbox is having problems. It's
like an incoming mail is overwriting portions of a previous mail.
How is your incoming mail arriving? Via the standard "rmail" receiver
program, or is "procmail" doing the mail delivery? If you don't know
what I'm talking about, it's probably "rmail".
You need to use correct locking methods on the mail spool, or incoming
mail might overwrite or get overwritten by Mutt if they both decide to
update the folder at the same time.
You can see Mutt's locking features in the "mutt -v" output. For HP-UX,
I believe you should see "+USE_SETGID", "+USE_DOTLOCK", "+USE_FCNTL",
and "-USE_FLOCK". That is, dot-locking and fcntl-locking should be
enabled. If they aren't, you could be in trouble.
At first I thought it might be Netscape attempting to access the
files, so I've redirected my mailbox to a new directory that Netscape
wouldn't access, but it's still happening.
How did you redirect your mail?
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