* David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-05-30 15:54 -0400:
> Andre --
> 
> ...and then Andre Berger said...
> % 
> % Hi!
> 
> Hello!
> 
> 
> % 
> % set editor="evim"         # simple mode of vim 6.1 on linux 
> % set abort_unmodified="no" # because mutt doesn't acknowledge the
> %                           # changes and I don't want confusing
> %                           # messages
> % 
> % With this setup, I'm asked if I want to "update encoding" of each
> 
> Hmmm...  Before you go blaming your setup, you might check the most
> common source of this problem: clock drift between your workstation and
> your NFS server.  The reason you're asked about the encoding is because
> the file's timestamp is newer than mutt expects and so it figures that
> something has touched it and so it wants to know if it should peek at
> the file to see if it's should still be QP or base64 or whatever.

Yes, it thinks the file is newer (and it is). I guess the problem is
evim (a gui program) is not running on the same terminal as mutt, in
fact in no terminal.  

> % message I'm about to send. Is there a way around this question, can I
> % make mutt (1.3.28) default to "yes, update the encoding"? 
> 
> I don't think so, but you might check the archives for how other people
> have taken care of this if not through clock syncing.

All mails are on the same local ext2 partition, so I don't think that
should be the problem.

-Andre

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