Re: Results of corruption test on 1.2 (was: Re: mailbox corruption and mutt)

2000-06-12 Thread CaT
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 09:17:48AM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: > On 2000-06-12 15:46:03 +1000, CaT wrote: > > > Which version of mutt should I try to see if I can > > reporduce this? I've noticed there have been > > official-looking patches about and wanna see if I can > > get this to happen ag

Re: Results of corruption test on 1.2 (was: Re: mailbox corruption and mutt)

2000-06-12 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2000-06-12 15:46:03 +1000, CaT wrote: > Which version of mutt should I try to see if I can > reporduce this? I've noticed there have been > official-looking patches about and wanna see if I can > get this to happen again. I think we have already been reproducing what you describe, and there a

Re: Results of corruption test on 1.2 (was: Re: mailbox corruption and mutt)

2000-06-11 Thread CaT
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 11:53:51PM +1000, CaT wrote: > On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 11:43:22AM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: > > On 2000-06-05 10:29:16 +1000, CaT wrote: > > > > > Before attempt: > > > > > -%-Mutt: /tmp/damien.work [Msgs:5492 New:12 Old:1176 Post:1 36M]---(reverse- > > > > > After a

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-05 Thread CaT
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 08:18:56PM +0200, clemensF wrote: > > CaT: > > > Local filesystem for all mailboxes. and erm.. disjunct? > > sorry, i could not find the word and threw in what came up. i mean, can > you guarante that no links, chrooted environments or whatever make > different mailboxes

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-05 Thread clemensF
> CaT: > Local filesystem for all mailboxes. and erm.. disjunct? sorry, i could not find the word and threw in what came up. i mean, can you guarante that no links, chrooted environments or whatever make different mailboxes undifferent, i.e. the same file? -- clemens

Re: Results of corruption test on 1.2 (was: Re: mailbox corruption and mutt)

2000-06-05 Thread CaT
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 11:43:22AM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: > On 2000-06-05 10:29:16 +1000, CaT wrote: > > > Before attempt: > > > -%-Mutt: /tmp/damien.work [Msgs:5492 New:12 Old:1176 Post:1 36M]---(reverse- > > > After attempt: > > > ---Mutt: /var/spool/mail/damien.work [Msgs:5038 New:9

Re: Results of corruption test on 1.2 (was: Re: mailbox corruption and mutt)

2000-06-05 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2000-06-05 10:29:16 +1000, CaT wrote: > Before attempt: > -%-Mutt: /tmp/damien.work [Msgs:5492 New:12 Old:1176 Post:1 36M]---(reverse- > After attempt: > ---Mutt: /var/spool/mail/damien.work [Msgs:5038 New:9 Old:1074 Post:1 34M]-- What precisely did happen between these two versions of the

Re: Results of corruption test on 1.2 (was: Re: mailbox corruption and mutt)

2000-06-05 Thread AG
Hi CaT! On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, CaT wrote: > I had both /tmp and /var/spool/mail filled up. I selected two msgs for > deletion as well as read one document. It would not let me quit. I > trie dit multiple times. I freed up space on /var/spool/mail so that it > has 160meg free and it still would no

Results of corruption test on 1.2 (was: Re: mailbox corruption and mutt)

2000-06-04 Thread CaT
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 07:29:53PM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote: > CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sun, 04 Jun 2000: > > Ok.. NOW I'm using 1.2. Grr. Compiled 1.2, went to play > > with my bros on their nintendo, came back and forgot I > > didn't install :) > > And the result of trying to re-crea

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-04 Thread CaT
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 09:52:48PM +0200, clemensF wrote: > > CaT: > > > I'm using several mutts but they're all on a different mailbox. > > mailboxes accessed by some nfs? really every mailbox disjunct? Local filesystem for all mailboxes. and erm.. disjunct? -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-04 Thread clemensF
> CaT: > I'm using several mutts but they're all on a different mailbox. mailboxes accessed by some nfs? really every mailbox disjunct? -- clemens

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-04 Thread Mikko Hänninen
CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sun, 04 Jun 2000: > Ok.. NOW I'm using 1.2. Grr. Compiled 1.2, went to play > with my bros on their nintendo, came back and forgot I > didn't install :) And the result of trying to re-create the problem with 1.2 is ..? Mikko -- // Mikko Hänninen, aka. Wizzu //

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-04 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2000-06-04 20:44:26 +1000, CaT wrote: > X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i hmmm... > Well if you check my X-Mailer header now... :) -- http://www.guug.de/~roessler/

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-04 Thread CaT
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 11:08:57AM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: > On 2000-06-04 16:32:44 +1000, CaT wrote: > > > for example this is one message in the mailbox that is > > currupt. Not that it consists of virtually missing > > headers and that it is two messages concatenated into > > one. And ev

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-04 Thread CaT
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 11:08:57AM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: > On 2000-06-04 16:32:44 +1000, CaT wrote: > > > for example this is one message in the mailbox that is > > currupt. Not that it consists of virtually missing > > headers and that it is two messages concatenated into > > one. And ev

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-04 Thread CaT
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 11:19:46AM +0200, clemensF wrote: > are you using several mutt windows in a gui or mbox formatted mailboxes > without locked access? I'm using several mutts but they're all on a different mailbox. -- CaT ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) URL: http://www.zip.com.a

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-04 Thread clemensF
> Thomas Roessler: > than maildir for large mailboxes. Just imagine a rather > traditional Unix file system design having to deal with > 7k5 files in _one_ directory... this might trouble the traditional linux (linear search) fs. -- clemens

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-04 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2000-06-03 23:42:17 -0700, Anton Graham wrote: > I would guess that your problem stems, in part, from > the fact that the mbox format is not really designed > for a 47 meg box with 7500+ messages. Personally, I have mbox folders with several 1e5 messages, and have not experienced any proble

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-04 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2000-06-04 16:32:44 +1000, CaT wrote: > for example this is one message in the mailbox that is > currupt. Not that it consists of virtually missing > headers and that it is two messages concatenated into > one. And even then the message bodies are incomplete > and the body of the first message

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-04 Thread clemensF
are you using several mutt windows in a gui or mbox formatted mailboxes without locked access? -- clemens

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-04 Thread CaT
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 12:38:35PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > CaT proclaimed on mutt-users that: > > >Ok. Not to be faceatous(sp?) or anything... just being curious :) What > >will this prove/solve/whatnot? I may have missed out on a bit of info > >in that, from memory, if I clear /t

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Anton Graham proclaimed on mutt-users that: >I would guess that your problem stems, in part, from the fact that the >mbox format is not really designed for a 47 meg box with 7500+ >messages. I would seriously consider saving some of those messages in So which is the best one? Here at the Juno

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-04 Thread Anton Graham
On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, CaT wrote: > I don't suppose I have a hope in getting any sort of responce to this? > > It is kinda important and I'd be more then happy to help track down the > problem but at the moment I've gotten SFA responce to it which may mean > that noone really cares if mutt corrupt

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
CaT proclaimed on mutt-users that: >Ok. Not to be faceatous(sp?) or anything... just being curious :) What >will this prove/solve/whatnot? I may have missed out on a bit of info >in that, from memory, if I clear /tmp then it eventually safes (albeit >in an icky corrupted manner). > >Anyways, jus

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-04 Thread CaT
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 12:13:38PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > CaT proclaimed on mutt-users that: > > >Mutt does corrupt if it cannot recover from this situation without > >corrupting the mailbox. It's not that the mailbox is saved, intact > > It should _not_ find itself in such a s

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
CaT proclaimed on mutt-users that: >Mutt does corrupt if it cannot recover from this situation without >corrupting the mailbox. It's not that the mailbox is saved, intact It should _not_ find itself in such a situation. Tell you what - move your mailboxes to another partition and create symli

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-03 Thread CaT
On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 11:49:40AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > CaT proclaimed on mutt-users that: > > >I don't suppose I have a hope in getting any sort of responce to this? > > Let me see .. > > >It is kinda important and I'd be more then happy to help track down the > >problem but

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
CaT proclaimed on mutt-users that: >I don't suppose I have a hope in getting any sort of responce to this? Let me see .. >It is kinda important and I'd be more then happy to help track down the >problem but at the moment I've gotten SFA responce to it which may mean >that noone really cares if

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-03 Thread CaT
I don't suppose I have a hope in getting any sort of responce to this? It is kinda important and I'd be more then happy to help track down the problem but at the moment I've gotten SFA responce to it which may mean that noone really cares if mutt corrupts mailboxes. On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 09:23

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-05-23 Thread CaT
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 10:10:07AM +1000, CaT wrote: > well I just had my mailbox corrupted for the second time by mutt 8( > > this happens when I try to quit, mutt finds there's not enough room > in /tmp and so doesn't let me. What winds up happening is that once > I do get a chance to quit prop

mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-05-22 Thread CaT
well I just had my mailbox corrupted for the second time by mutt 8( this happens when I try to quit, mutt finds there's not enough room in /tmp and so doesn't let me. What winds up happening is that once I do get a chance to quit properly (as opposed to exit) mutt saves the mailbox with a large c