On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 12:06:22PM +0100, Thomas Roessler wrote: > On 2000-02-20 10:41:45 -0500, David Shaw wrote: > > > Got it. I guess I was expecting the old mbox behavior. I switched to > > maildir after the second corrupted mbox file in the past year (I bug > > reported the last one, but I don't know if the fix made it in to > > mutt). > > Which one? Attached below. If I recall, it was an obscure race when one instance of mutt was writing a mbox and another was starting up at the same moment. (and for all I know, procmail may have been delivering at the very instant as well). Edmund GRIMLEY posted a fix a day later. > > I wonder if there is a way to approximate the mbox behavior with > > maildir? > > Set mark_old. Well, that's not really approximating the mbox behavior. The mbox behavior with mark_old unset when someone leaves a folder with new messages is to leave them marked new, and mutt ignores that mbox until some new mail arrives. The maildir behavior with mark_old unset when someone leaves a folder with new messages is to leave them marked new, and mutt immediately pops up "New mail in ...". That makes change-folder a lot less useful. I'm using set mark_old now, but I do miss the old mbox behavior. I just don't feel good about trusting mboxes anymore. David -- David Shaw | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | WWW http://www.jabberwocky.com/ +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." - Jeremy S. Anderson
Hi, I just managed to get mutt 1.1.2i to dump core. I can't seem to duplicate it, but I think it has something to do with one mutt writing out a file while another instance is starting up. backtrace: #0 _IO_seekoff (fp=0x0, offset=0, dir=2, mode=3) at ioseekoff.c:35 #1 0x400aa44e in fseek (fp=0x0, offset=0, whence=2) at fseek.c:38 #2 0x805048f in fseek_last_message (f=0x0) at buffy.c:55 #3 0x805057b in test_last_status_new (f=0x0) at buffy.c:98 #4 0x8050607 in test_new_folder ( path=0x80c4048 "/home/dshaw/Mailspool/akamai.lock") at buffy.c:122 #5 0x80507c6 in mutt_parse_mailboxes (path=0xbfffed94, s=0xbfffed54, data=0, err=0xbfffede4) at buffy.c:201 #6 0x8061fe7 in mutt_parse_rc_line ( line=0x80bb938 "mailboxes ! `echo $HOME/Mailspool/* $HOME/News/*` =pending", token=0xbfffed94, err=0xbfffede4) at init.c:1253 #7 0x8061d18 in source_rc (rcfile=0x80bb8b0 "/home/dshaw/.muttrc", err=0xbfffede4) at init.c:1181 #8 0x8063311 in mutt_init (skip_sys_rc=0, commands=0x0) at init.c:1816 #9 0x806abee in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff930) at main.c:516 Mutt 1.1.2i (2000-01-08) Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Michael R. Elkins and others. Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'. Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details. System: Linux 2.0.36 [using slang 9938] Compile options: -DOMAIN -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK +USE_IMAP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL +USE_POP +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_PGP2 +BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS +ENABLE_NLS SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail" MAILPATH="/var/spool/mail" SHAREDIR="/usr/local/share/mutt" SYSCONFDIR="/usr/local/etc" ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell" _PGPPATH="/usr/local/bin/pgp" _PGPV2PATH="/usr/local/bin/pgp" To contact the developers, please mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. David -- David Shaw | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | WWW http://www.jabberwocky.com/ +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." - Jeremy S. Anderson
