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Re: movemail fails to get lock

From Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: movemail fails to get lock
Date 2022-02-19 16:40 +0100
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Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> writes:
>
> 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.

It creates the destination file if it doesn't exist.  But yes, it turns
out encfs has locking -- or, I suspect, race condition -- issues (see my
own followup to my original post).

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movemail fails to get lock Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2022-02-18 17:40 +0100
  Re: movemail fails to get lock Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-02-18 18:40 +0100
    Re: movemail fails to get lock Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2022-02-19 16:40 +0100
  Re: movemail fails to get lock Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2022-02-19 16:40 +0100

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