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Re: NFS mailbox locking problems



Hi, Thanks for the response. I think my setup is as you suggest.
My mbox is in my home directory which is itself NFS mounted. I poll for
pop mail from mutt using 'G'. I'm an NIS / remote user, not a local one!

I think the lock problem is on my mbox no?

Cheers

Andy

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Christoph Berg wrote:

>Re: NFS mailbox locking problems [Andrew Cheadle <amc4@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tue, Sep 
>30, 2003 at 12:49:46PM +0100, 
><Pine.LNX.4.58.0309301235060.29432@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]
>> I get the following error and my mbox is not opened.
>>
>> fcntl: No locks available (errno = 37)
>
>It is a bad idea to use mbox folders on NFS mounts, because locking is a
>problem, especially in /var/mail. If you mail arrives while mutt writes
>changes in the folder back, new (or old) mail will be lost.
>
>You can use mbox folders in $HOME if nothing else on a different host
>(e.g. procmail) touches the folders.
>
>In your case, I'd poll for new mail with POP and put it somewhere in
>$HOME, never touching /var/mail directly.
>
>Christoph
>

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