On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 11:43:22AM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> On 2000-06-05 10:29:16 +1000, CaT wrote:
>
> > Before attempt:
>
> > -%-Mutt: /tmp/damien.work [Msgs:5492 New:12 Old:1176 Post:1 36M]---(reverse-
>
> > After attempt:
>
> > ---Mutt: /var/spool/mail/damien.work [Msgs:5038 New:9 Old:1074 Post:1 34M]--
>
> What precisely did happen between these two versions of
> the mail folder? Please be a little bit more precise. ;-)
Hehe. I'll try tomorrow with a step by step list of what I did
and what happened (well as close to this as I can get :). ATM
I'm dead tired.
> > I had both /tmp and /var/spool/mail filled up. I
> > selected two msgs for deletion as well as read one
> > document. It would not let me quit.
>
> This almost sounds like reasonable behaviour, as it sounds
> like mutt had detected that it couldn't commit the changes
> to the mail folder.
Yup. But something wrong happened to it's internal picture of the mailbox I think.
> Were there any messages about preserved temporary files?
Nope. it counted up as it was parsing the maiblox during the save and then
whammo, no status message at the bottom and the quit failed. I THINK though
that something akin to a status message MAY have flashed instantaneously
before my eyes though.
> When a folder can't be written back, a temporary file
> containing the folder which should have been written
> should be left in $TMPDIR.
None was left in /tmp and $TMPDIR is not set on my system. I just size
sorted the contents and there was nothing there. the youngest tmp file
left by mutt was from May 25 and is about 9k in size. It's contents is
weird though:
Status: O
Content-Length: 118
Lines: 4
Status: O
Content-Length: 196
Lines: 15
Status: O
Content-Length: 1668
Lines: 47
Status: O
Content-Length: 149886
Lines: 3372
Status: O
Content-Length: 0
Lines: 0
Status: O
Content-Length: 0
Lines: 0
Status: O
Content-Length: 0
Lines: 0
etc...
The file name is: /tmp/mutt.damien-nessie-263
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