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📛 Name

dotlock.mailutils - lock mail spool files.

🚀 Quick Reference

Use Case	Command	Description
🔒 Lock a mail spool file	dotlock.mailutils FILE	Create a lock for the specified mail spool file.
🔓 Unlock a mail spool file	dotlock.mailutils -u FILE	Remove the lock file.
💥 Force break an old lock	dotlock.mailutils -f [MINUTES] FILE	Forcibly break a lock older than MINUTES (default 5 if not specified).
🔄 Retry lock with custom retries	dotlock.mailutils -r RETRIES FILE	Retry locking up to RETRIES times.
⏱️ Set delay between retries	dotlock.mailutils -t SECONDS FILE	Set delay between locking attempts (in seconds).
🐛 Enable debug output	dotlock.mailutils -d FILE	Print details of failure reasons to stderr.
🔍 Check lock owner PID	dotlock.mailutils -p FILE	Check if the PID of lock owner is still active.

📋 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

ℹ️ 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 ℹ️ print program version

Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.

🚪 Exit Codes

Code	Meaning
0	✅ Success
1	❌ Other error
3	🔒 File already locked

🐛 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 © 2007-2022 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 January 2022 DOTLOCK.MAILUTILS(1)

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