On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 04:22:09PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Sunday, December 9 at 04:50 PM, quoth Chris G: > >I have just had the shell account where I read my mail moved from a > >FreeBSD system to a Linux one. I was using mutt 1.5.16 on the FreeBSD > >system, I'm using 1.5.17 on the Linux system. I have the same home > >directory on both systems so my muttrc file is unchanged (except for > >removing sentmail from the mailboxes line). > > > >I'm getting an odd effect when I log in to read new mail, the busier > >mailing lists' mail appears in two chunks. I.e. I see new mail in the > >fedora mailing list mailbox, I open it and read, say, 20 messages. I > >then go to the next mailing list (possibly mutt) read messages there > >and then, immediately afterwards the next new messages are 50 or so in > >the fedora mailbox again. There's no way they're really new or have > >arrived since the first lot. This wasn't happening in the FreeBSD > >environment, does anyone have any ideas what might be causing it? > > Is it possible that there's some sort of locking issue, where those > messages are being held in the mail queue and after mutt cleans the > lock your MTA is suddenly delivering them all? > That's certainly what the symptoms look like but the mail is being delivered to the same place, my home directory lives on a file server somewhere and is mounted by both the FreeBSD system and the Linux system. The MTA is, presumably, running on yet another system somewhere I would guess.
Strangely I didn't get the same symptom just now and there were 80 or more messages in the fedora mailbox. Maybe it's just something that was happening during the changeover. -- Chris Green