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Re: movemail fails to get lock

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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-

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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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