Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> After some upgrades, when I try to use VM to read my mail from within
> emacs, movemail has been unable to get my mail. I've added some
> switches to it to try to get a better picture of what it's doing;
> currently I've got
> '(vm-movemail-program-switches '("-vvv" "--debug-level=99"
> "--debug-line-info"))
>
> When I try to fetch my mail with these switches, I get the messages
>
> movemail: mboxrd.c:89: mboxrd_mailbox_init_stream:mu_mapfile_stream_create
> (/home/joseph/INBOX.crash): No such file or directory
> movemail: mboxrd.c:96: mboxrd_mailbox_init_stream:mu_file_stream_create
> (/home/joseph/INBOX.crash): Success
> movemail: mailbox `/home/joseph/INBOX.crash': cannot lock: Lock file check
> failed
>
> movemail exited with code 1
>
> in the *output of movemail /var/mail/joseph /home/joseph/INBOX.crash* buffer.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong here? Much googling has
> not given me any ideas...
You should confirm that /home/joseph/INBOX.crash exists and has
the right ownership and permissions. After that, make sure that
it's not mounted via NFS or some other odd filesystem that has
locking issues.
-dsr-
