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Subject:[maildropl] "unable to create dot-lock" error with maildirActions...
From:Russell L. Harris (rlha@oplink.net)
Date:Nov 7, 2006 6:15:18 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildrop

I am switching from Gnus to Mutt, and am using maildrop to provide the sorting which I previously was doing with Gnus. I am running Debian Etch on an i386 (Celeron) desktop system. The incoming mail chain is as follows:

pop3.isp.com -> getmail4 -> maildrop -> [ maildir structures ] -> mutt

I created the maildir structures manually, using the command:

$ mkdir -p ~/mail/<new-maildir-name>/{cur,new,tmp}

I am getting errors of the following variety:

Delivery error (command maildrop 20225 error (75, /usr/bin/maildrop: Unable to create a dot-lock at computer/20225.0.cromwell.))

Here is my "~/.mailfilter" file:

DEFAULT="$HOME/mail/nondescript/"

### flagged by SpamAssassin

if ( /^Subject:.*SPAM/ ) to spam

### computer

# debian

if ( /^(To||Cc):.*debian-user/ ) to computer/debian

# mutt

if ( /^(To||Cc):.*mutt-users/ ) to computer/mutt

# alsa

if ( /^Subject:.*\[alsa-user\]/ ) to computer/alsa

# demudi (agnula)

if ( /^Subject:.*\[a-users\]/ ) to computer/demudi

to nondescript

RLH