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NAME
       dotlock - lock mail spool files.

SYNOPSIS
       dotlock.mailutils [OPTION...] FILE

DESCRIPTION
       GNU dotlock -- lock mail spool files.

       -d, --debug
	      print details of failure reasons to stderr

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

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

       -u, --unlock
	      unlock

       --license
	      print license and exit

	      Common options

       --config-file=FILE, --rcfile=FILE
	      load this configuration file

       --config-help
	      show configuration file summary

       --config-lint, --rcfile-lint
	      check configuration file syntax and exit

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

       --no-site-config, --no-site-rcfile
	      do not load site configuration file

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

       --set=PARAM=VALUE
	      set configuration parameter

       --show-config-options
	      show compilation options

	      Global debugging settings

       --debug-level=LEVEL
	      set Mailutils debugging level

       --debug-line-info
	      show source info with debugging messages

       -?, --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 corresponding 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@gnu.org>.

SEE ALSO
       The  complete  GNU mailutils manual is not available in Debian systems due to licensing reasons. You can find this manual online in the GNU
       mailutils webpage:
       http://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  Mailu-
       tils upstream authors.

FSF
								     May 2011								DOTLOCK(1)