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Re: [Nmh-workers] Building nmh 1.6 for Ubuntu 12.04


From: Bill Wohler
Subject: Re: [Nmh-workers] Building nmh 1.6 for Ubuntu 12.04
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 13:04:48 -0700

Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> wrote:

> >>>    ./configure --enable-lockdir=$HOME/var/mail --with-cyrus-sasl 
> >>> --with-tls --prefix $HOME/lib/nmh
> >>
> >> Hm, I don't think --enable-lockdir did what you think it does.
> >
> >At least appears to work.
> 
> Well, let me ask you ... what do you THINK it does?  And does your local
> delivery agent use $HOME/var/mail as the spool directory?  And does it
> actually do dot-locking?

Probably not :-).

> >>                                                                 Hopefully
> >> almost nobody will need it now since the default locking algorithm is
> >> runtime selectable and the default is no longer dot-locking.
> >
> >As of 1.6?
> 
> Yes.

OK, my path is clear. Thanks!

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