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NAME
       dotlock.mailutils - lock mail spool files.

SYNOPSIS
       dotlock.mailutils [OPTION...] FILE

DESCRIPTION
       GNU dotlock -- lock mail spool files.

       -d, --[no-]debug
              print details of failure reasons to stderr

       -f, --force[=MINUTES]
              forcibly break an existing lock older than a certain time

       -p, --[no-]pid-check
              check if the PID of lock owner is still active

       -r, --retry=RETRIES
              retry the lock a few times

       -t, --delay=SECONDS
              delay between two successive locking attempts (in seconds)

       -u, --[no-]unlock
              unlock

              Global debugging settings

       --debug-level=LEVEL
              set Mailutils debugging level

       --[no-]debug-line-info show source info with debugging messages

              Configuration handling

       --config-file=FILE
              load this configuration file; implies --no-config

       --config-lint
              check configuration file syntax and exit

       --config-verbose
              verbosely log parsing of the configuration files

       --no-config
              do not load site and user configuration files

       --no-site-config
              do not load site-wide configuration file

       --no-user-config
              do not load user configuration file

       --set=PARAM=VALUE
              set configuration parameter

              Informational options

       --config-help
              show configuration file summary

       --show-config-options
              show compilation options

       -?, --help
              give this help list

       --usage
              give a short usage message

       -V, --version
              print program version

       Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corre‐
       sponding short options.

       Returns  0 on success, 3 if locking the file fails because it's already locked, and 1 if some
       other kind of error occurred.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to <bug-mailutils AT gnu.org>.
       GNU Mailutils home page: <http://mailutils.org>
       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright © 2007-2024 Free Software Foundation, inc.  License GPLv3+: GNU GPL  version  3  or
       later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
       This  is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to
       the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
       The complete GNU mailutils documentation is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the mailutils-
       doc package is installed, the command

              info mailutils

       should give you access to the complete manual.
       You can also find this manual online in the GNU mailutils webpage:
       https://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils/manual/index.html.
       Please note this manpage was automatically generated by the Debian  mailutils  packagers.  Do
       not file bugs for its content to the GNU Mailutils upstream authors.

FSF                                          March 2024                         DOTLOCK.MAILUTILS(1)