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Re: Mbox on smb mount



Robin Sommer <robinsommer@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I'm running mutt on a Mac OS X 10.4 system. The file system which
> contains my mbox folders is mounted via smb from a samba server
> using mount_smbfs. Unfortunately, I can't get the mbox locking to
> work in this setup.

Mail access over SMB is just fundamentally broken, with any software.  If you
can't get a straight NFS mount from that server (you said it's samba, not
Windows, so why not?), access them via IMAP.

Charles
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