I am frankly baffled. Were you low on disk space? Mutt fetches messages
into temp files - it sounds like it might not have been able to write to
them...
On Tuesday, 23 November 1999 at 09:14, Chris Green wrote:
> I am using mutt 1.1.1 and was just looking at some mail in an IMAP4
> folder.
>
> One section of the index window looks like this:-
>
> 7 D Nov 17 laurent.duperva ( 0) Food for thought
> 8 D Nov 21 Martin Forssén ( 0) TkRat 2.0b5 available
> -> 9 Nov 21 sam rosenfeld ( 0) Having problems getting it going
> 10 O Nov 22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( 0) gpg usage
> 11 O Nov 22 Brian Servis ( 0) Still getting segfault problems on sta
>
> I have looked at and deleted messages 7 and 8, I just looked at
> message 9. If I hit return now the message opens but shows only the
> header, the body is empty. The first time I open any of the 'O'
> messages they display OK, if I re-open them I just get the header and
> no body. This only seems to happen with messages marked 'O'.
>
> Even stranger, while I was playing with the above problem I deleted a
> longish (two screen pages) message so it was marked 'D'. I then moved
> the cursor back to that message (i.e. I moved the pointer up using 'K'),
> this caused mutt to re-download the headers (and messages?). I re-opened
> the message by hitting return and only the second page of the message
> was available! It was as if hitting 'D' had only deleted the displayed
> page of the message and the undisplayed remainder was downloaded from
> the IMAP server again. It also removed the 'D' flag from the message,
> is this how things are expected to work, it's not how mutt works with
> local folders/messages.
>
> I'm using colour so it's remotely possible that the invisible messages
> are black on black but I don't think it's that, I've not noticed
> anything odd happening with local mail.
>
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