Re: Really strange 'new messages' problem
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
Re: Really strange 'new messages' problem
On 10Dec2007 09:36, Chris G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 04:22:09PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: | 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. NFS directory content caching? It can introduce delays in seeing changes performed from another server. Since this caching is local to the NFS client, a change of local client from BSD to Linux may change its behaviour. -- Cameron Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ The Force. It surrounds us; It enfolds us; It gets us dates on Saturday Nights. - Obi Wan Kenobi, Famous Jedi Knight and Party Animal.
Really strange 'new messages' problem
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? -- Chris Green
Re: Really strange 'new messages' problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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? ~Kyle - -- In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him. -- Dereke Bruce -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iD8DBQFHXGqRBkIOoMqOI14RAifnAKDMD51ASGaf/v7PtSrq+Ys2QSJiMgCfa4SH s3FrVNXpmx1sYcDOJjgQV6Y= =dSvW -END PGP SIGNATURE-
