On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 11:51:56AM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 11:16:23AM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote: > > Are these mbox format mailboxes?
Yes. I'm planning to move to maildirs for a long time, but have not managed to actually do this yet. > When the problem occurs, would you mind trying a few things: > > * Try to <pipe-message> to less. > > * Without exiting mutt, try changing $tmpdir to an existing temporary > directory in your home dir and see if that changes anything: > :set tmpdir = "~/tmp" > > * See if the mutt process is leaking file descriptors by getting the pid and > running `lsof -p <pid>`. Thanks! I'll try this when it happens again. This can take some time. > > Mutt stops not only to show the contents, but also when replying to a mail > > with quote, I end up in an emacs with nothing but the header. So mutt > > forgets > > all the mail contents except the header. > > Does Mutt even show the attribution header in the reply? What is the attribution header? > > Changing to a different mail or even to a different folder don't help. The > > only way is to quit mutt and start again. Then it works again for several > > hours or even days, just to eventually stop showing mail contents again. > > So, it's able to open the new mailbox, parse it, and display the messages in > the index, but you can't view a message or its attachments? Exactly. If I select a message, it even shows the header of the message. But no body and no attachmets. -- Josef Wolf j...@raven.inka.de
