Mikko Hänninen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dave Lorand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 14 Feb 2000:
> > When I issue a mutt -y or mutt -Z, mutt exits silently even when I
> > know there is new mail in a mailbox. mutt -y in particular shouldn't
> > ever just exit silently, if I understand the docs correctly.
>
> Can you see a list of your mailboxes if you do the key sequence
> "c?<tab>" (without the quotes)? (That's change folder, list
> files/folders, switch to incoming mail folders view.)
Yes, that works.
> Do you have your $folder set up properly, *before* the mailboxes line?
> If you don't define it then the default (~/Mail) is used...
I'm using the default of ~/Mail, so that's not an issue.
David DeSimone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mikko Hänninen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > And yes, mutt -y shouldn't exit silently... mutt -Z will likely start
> > to work too once you get mutt -y working.
>
> Mutt might not be exiting "silently"; it might actually be crashing, and
> wants to dump core, but can't for some reason.
Well, there *was* a core file in my home directory, but it could have
been from KDE for all I know. I deleted the core file, tried mutt -y
again (after having done the c-?-tab from above) and viola! now it
works.
I had never done c-?-tab from within mutt before, so my guess is that
somehow mutt -y only works after that's been done once. Very wierd.
Regards,
Dave
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