Hi all.
I've got a couple of potential bugs, and some questions on how to
debug/report them.
First, the bugs:
o Mutt seems to be losing track of the number of new messages. Every
now and then, I end up with "New: 1" in the status bar at the bottom
of the screen, but there aren't any new messages (pressing Tab
(next-new) replies with "No new messages."
When I resync the mailbox ("$") mutt then corrects itself and shows
no new messages.
I haven't seen this problem enough times to work out a pattern or a
cause.
o Every now and then, while sorting the mailbox, mutt is crashing on me
with a Bus Error, and dumping core.
Now the questions.
Has anyone seen these before? I've had a look at the mutt-dev mailing
list, and nothing similar seems to have been posted recently.#
I guess that if the core dumps are going to be any use to the
developers, I'm going to have to recompile with the relevant
debugging options switched on. How do I do this? I might even have
a go at trying to work out what happened myself (I've got a
reasonable amount of experience running xxgdb, albeit with my own C
program, and not from a core dump). Is there anything built into the
mutt environment to help with this?
What is the etiquette for reporting a bug? Do I just post to the
mutt-dev mailing list? Run muttbug? If I run muttbug, can it do a
better job if I've compiled mutt with the relevant debug options?
(I've just seen below that it might have been compiled with debug
already - is this the default for the 1.3 branch?)
Setup:
tabby(21)% mutt -v
Mutt 1.3.23.2i (2001-11-08)
Copyright (C) 1996-2001 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: SunOS 5.8 (sun4u)
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
+DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL -USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK -DL_STANDALONE
+USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
-USE_POP +USE_IMAP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL -USE_SASL
+HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX
+HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET
+HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META -HAVE_RESIZETERM
+HAVE_PGP -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT
+ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
+HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR
+HAVE_ICONV +ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_GETSID +HAVE_GETADDRINFO
-ISPELL
SENDMAIL="/usr/lib/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/mail"
PKGDATADIR="/u/dsmith/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/u/dsmith/etc"
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
-MIXMASTER
To contact the developers, please mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility.
Incoming mail comes from an imap server - opening the imap port gives me
"IMAP4rev1 v12.250", if that means anything to anyone.
TIA...
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