Hi,
I used to have the same problem. After trying out all possible
solutions, I commented
#define USE_DOTLOCK 1
in config.h generated after running configure and then ran 'make
install'. It works perfectly well but I am not sure of the side effects.
HTH,
Raju
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 03:42:19PM -0700, David Benfell [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
> Well, I was desperate. Setting chmod +s didn't solve my read-only
> mailbox problem.
>
> And pine can still deal with the mailbox properly, so I've obviously
> screwed up mutt somehow -- which I guess is no surprise, seeing as it
> worked before, out of the TurboLinux 3.6 box.
>
> On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 02:28:31PM -0700, David Benfell wrote:
> >
> > Whoops! I see I sent the attached to a wrong address -- why would that
> > be in the muttrc file that came with the distribution?
> > --
> > David Benfell
> > ---
> > In your 30's, you discover that life is boring.
> > In your 40's, you decide that's probably for the best.
> > After that, you have fond memories of the life you never had.
> >
>
> > Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 14:24:51 -0700
> > From: David Benfell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Mutt User List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: mutt-1.0pre2i.tar.gz installation
> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Mail-Followup-To: Mutt User List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Mime-Version: 1.0
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> > X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i
> > X-From: David Benfell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Silly me, I should have saved more of the mail regarding the latest
> > version of mutt:
> >
> > 1) The configure and install seemingly went in painlessly. I did notice
> > a bunch of complaints about missing characters which I presume to be
> > because I didn't configure the kernel to support every character set on
> > the planet.
> >
> > 2) I had just installed gnupg. This was my motivation for getting an
> > international version of mutt. But when I started mutt up, it didn't
> > recognize any of the gpg variables I had inserted in my muttrc.
> >
> > 3) And now, HELP!!! It says my mailbox is read-only. I specifically
> > remember someone here saying it's a bad idea to make mutt run as root,
> > so I'm not doing that (at least not yet.) But I look at the
> > /var/spool/mail/benfell file and it looks to me like the permission is
> > set to 640, which seems sensible to me:
> >
> > [benfell@phantom benfell]$ ls -al /var/spool/mail/
> > total 22
> > drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 3 14:07 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 1024 Aug 14 07:50 ..
> > -rw-r----- 1 benfell mail 18640 Sep 3 14:07 benfell
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 uucp mail 0 Aug 14 07:43 fax
> > -rw------- 1 root root 0 Aug 12 16:01 root
> >
> > I used defaults in configuring mutt. Here is:
> >
> > [benfell@phantom benfell]$ mutt -v
> > Mutt 1.0pre2i (1999-08-31)
> > Copyright (C) 1996-9 Michael R. Elkins and others.
> > Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
> > Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> > under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
> >
> > System: Linux 2.2.12 [using ncurses 4.2]
> > Compile options:
> > -DOMAIN
> > -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
> > -USE_IMAP -USE_POP +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR
> > +HAVE_GPG -BUFFY_SIZE
> > -EXACT_ADDRESS +ENABLE_NLS
> > SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
> > MAILPATH="/var/spool/mail"
> > SHAREDIR="/usr/local/share/mutt"
> > SYSCONFDIR="/usr/local/etc"
> > ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell"
> > _PGPPATH="/usr/local/bin/gpg"
> > _PGPGPGPATH="/usr/local/bin/gpg"
> > To contact the developers, please mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
> >
> > and if it matters:
> >
> > [benfell@phantom benfell]$ uname -a
> > Linux phantom.kparker.org 2.2.12 #1 Sun Aug 29 03:02:29 PDT 1999 i586
> > unknown
> >
> > Thanks very much.
> >
> > --
> > David Benfell
> > ---
> > In your 30's, you discover that life is boring.
> > In your 40's, you decide that's probably for the best.
> > After that, you have fond memories of the life you never had.
> >
>
>
> --
> David Benfell
> ---
> In your 30's, you discover that life is boring.
> In your 40's, you decide that's probably for the best.
> After that, you have fond memories of the life you never had.
>
