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From: jwt@tupelo.cs.duke.edu (Jeffrey W. Tannehill)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: using $HOME/RMAIL.lock as the movemail lock file
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Date: 24 May 88 16:02:09 GMT
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Posted: Tue May 24 12:02:09 1988


	When using rmail in gnuemacs v18.51, movemail either uses flock
or it creates a lock file /usr/spool/mail/$USER.lock.  In order to do the 
latter it has been suggested that movemail be setuid or that it be setgid and 
/usr/spool/mail be group writeable.  I would like to avoid flock because
/usr/spool/mail is remotely mounted (via NFS) on some machines, and for 
reasons of paranoia I would like to avoid a set[ug]id movemail altogether.
	Has anyone considered having movemail create a lock file in
$HOME/RMAIL.lock instead of in /usr/spool/mail/$USER.lock?  Are there any 
reasons why this shouldn't be done?
	Emacs is new to me, and I do not know all the"issues" surrounding 
its design, so if this suggestion conflicts with the philosophy of emacs 
(or good programming :-), please go easy on me.

						jwt
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