Hey all,
I'm using mutt 1.2.5i, and I've got a very strange problem with new
mail. I'm using mutt to access IMAP folders, and the binary and
shared data reside on NFS. Here's the problem:
On some systems where I run mutt, it works as you would expect. On
others, after I read all the new messages in a folder which it marked
as having new mail, and then try to change to the next folder with new
mail, but it would send me back into the same folder, thinking that
there was still new mail there. Going back out to the index also
reveals that mutt thinks there's still new mail in the folder, but
re-entering the folder shows that there isn't any new mail.
I ran mutt on 4 machines, and it exhibited this behavior on two of
them. The breakdown is this:
Red Hat 6.2, linux 2.2.19 (stock): works
Red Hat 6.2, linux 2.2.19 (Red Hat): doesn't work
Red Hat 7.1, linux 2.4.7 (stock): works
Red Hat 7.1, linux 2.4.8 (stock): doesn't work
All machines are running with the same binary from NFS, accessing the
same IMAP server. No two clients are started at the same time, so
it's not a locking problem. All machines are synchronized via NTP, so
the system time on all 5 machines is within about 10 ms.
Here's the output from mutt -v:
$ mutt -v
Mutt 1.2.5i (2000-07-28)
Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
System: Linux 2.4.7 [using ncurses 4.2]
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
-DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
+USE_IMAP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL +USE_POP +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX
+HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_PGP -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS +ENABLE_NLS
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/spool/mail"
SHAREDIR="/nfs/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/nfs/etc"
ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell"
To contact the developers, please mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
To report a bug, please use the muttbug utility.
So, uh, what gives? Any clues?
Thanks
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