On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 13:25:01 PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > try opening the location where "old_email" is, specifically: > mutt -f <specific-location> > ie: mutt -f /home/user/mail/old_mail
this didn't make any difference, but trying yours and Jeremy's suggestions helped me to find the real problem. A terribly dumb one, of course. Doing this as "marco" mutt -f /home/user/mail/old_mail didn't show the messages, but prompted me to do it as root, which worked :-), thus making the problem obvious. for whatever reason (as I said, it's an old backup, I really don't remember how it was "built"), that mailbox contained 90% of the files owned by marco:marco, and the ones not showing in Mutt all owned by another SUID/GID. A chown -R marco:marco old_mail fixed everything. Thanks for your help that put me on the right track. As a final thought, shouldn't Mutt tell something when this happens? Why it didn't complain that the mailbox contained emails from two users? Marco
