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Re: [TCLUG:19409] silly question



Gabe Turner said:
> !!!  Turning locking off is _not_ a good idea.  What if you've got too seperate
> MUAs running on two different machines (or the same machine) both reading your 
> mail spool?  There's a good chance you could corrupt your spool.  If it's a 
> locking problem, make sure you have rpc.statd running so that mutt can flock
> your spool.

I've got the same problem.  I'm using the standard Debian mutt (version
1.0.0-2).  Both machines are running rpc.statd, but I doubt that it matters,
as mutt -v shows

+USE_DOTLOCK  +USE_FCNTL  -USE_FLOCK

Suggestions?

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