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