On 09/06/01 04:06 PM, Brendan Cully sat at the `puter and typed:
> I think what you want is the $move option, which you should set to
> 'no'. Also keep an eye out for any mbox-hooks you might have lying
> around.
I think you're right. Turns out it was turned on.
> the '>' switches to $mbox, which you aren't interested in. To get back
> to the spoolfile, use '!'.
Ok, will do.
> I don't know exactly what's happening here. Frankly I'm like you and
> have $move perpetually turned off (everything's already filtered to the
> right place), so bugs seem to crop up here more often than usual.
>
> If you have $move off, $mbox shouldn't even be used. But, one thing I
> can say is mutt's mailbox comparison is exceedingly stupid (basically
> just a strcmp), so to it your $mbox and $spoolfile appear to be
> different mailboxes even though they're not. This is probably what's
> gotten mutt confused and acting weird.
>
> I'd written about half of a proper mailbox comparison function a couple
> days ago (for a very similar problem), but scrapped it a couple of days
> ago for a less reliable fix (I tried to canonify paths when they were
> entered, so we could use the less expensive strcmp later). It may be
> that was the wrong approach.
>
> But on the other hand, you might try current CVS and see if it works out
> for you. Oh, one final note: using the imap URL format
> (eg imap:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/INBOX) tends to work a bit
> better, since that's what mutt uses internally.
>
As I suspected, this problem was mine. I turned off the move
directive and mbox, and switched the folder and spoolfile to the
format you suggested. So far it seems to have worked.
One bit of info I forgot to include that may have made it more
obvious, is that when I did change to '>', I wound up in a local file
(~/mbox). Apparently, since I had move on, but didn't define mbox, it
defaulted to ~/mbox. I was probably flirting with disaster having it
set back to my spoolfile.
> In short, I don't really know what happened :)
Oh, I don't know. You seem to have hit the nail on the head! :)
Thanks!
Lou
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