Quoting Hendrik Tews ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > If it works with CIFS, I agree. Did the smbfs driver /ever/ support the > Unix CIFS extensions necessary to make hard links work? > > I am rather sure it did. I always used the Gnu emacs movemail > utility to retrieve mail from an smbfs volume, which makes > hardlinks to lock the spool files. This worked fine until I > installed etch on 2006-08-24. It took me ages to find out that > the hardlink operation is causing my mail retrieval to fail.
It will be very hard to investigate anyway and I'm entirely sure that upstream will do nothign but recommend to switch to cifs (which you did). Things my also come from a change on the server side. Therefore, I still propose closing the bug. (and I leave for holidays)
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