Am 2006-04-29 20:51:32, schrieb Jari Aalto:
> Package: mutt
> Version: 1.5.11+cvs20060403-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> DESCRIPTION
> 
> 1.  Install mutt
> 2.  Start it for the first time
>     
> 
> 3.  have ~/Maildir full of messages and ~/.muttrc
> 
>     set spoolfile = ~/Maildir/
> 
> 4.  Start composing reply to someone
> 5.  Send message with "y"
> 
> The program stop and displays:
> 
>   Couldn't lock /home/foo/sent?
> 
> PROBLEM
> 
> The error message isn't very descriptive. Did the program try to lock
> a file? Is there problem while locking .... The problem is not specified.
> 
> Looking at the default composed message reveals that there is field:
> 
>    Fcc: ~/sent
> 
> added by default

Which is correct.

> SUGGESTION
> 
> 1) Program shoudl not add Fcc by default, especially when directory does
> not exist.

~/sent is not a directory but a file

> 2) The error message should be clear enough to indicate the error reason.
> In this case better erro rmessage would have been:
> 
>  Cannot save message. Directory does not exist ~/sent. Check Fcc field

No, because ~/sent is definitivly a file on your system...

So you have a Maildir?
Do you have set the correct mailboxtype?

Mutt can read mbox, maildir and mh without any configuration options.
BUT, because mutt want to lock ~/sent it seems, that you have not
setup correctly mutt with

set mbox_type=maildir
set folder="$HOME/Maildir/"
set spoolfile="$HOME/Maildir/"
set record="+sent/"
set postponed="+drafts/"


Greetings
    Michelle Konzack


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