Re: Mutt mailbox corruption during delete

Re: Mutt mailbox corruption during delete

[Bob Heckel]

It turns out that one of my mount points was set as textmode (which
the mutt Cygwin documentation warns against).  That was the source
of the problem.  My fault.  At least the mailing list archive now
contains an example of what happens if you use mutt under textmode.

FWIW, mutt on Cygwin would be worth using even if I couldn't use the
mailboxes (but Windows wouldn't be worth using if I couldn't use
Cygwin)...

Bob Heckel

>...
>After I delete a message, the mailbox file ends up re-written with
>partial 'From' lines at the start of many, but not all, of the
>messages.  I think this alters mutt's recalculation of
>'Content-Length:' on that message by including the partial 'From'
>line.  The error cascades on the rest of the messages in the
>mailbox.
>
>Same problem occurs regardless of Unix or DOS formatted mailboxes.
>My mounts are binmode. Here's my uname -a output: 
>CYGWIN_NT-5.0 THEBOX 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) 2001-05-20 23:28 i686 unknown
>
>Sample mailbox:
>  ...snip
>
>  Fro
>  From bheckel@foob
>  From bheckel@foobar.com Sat Jul 21 22:04:18 2001
>  Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 22:04:18 -0400
>  From: Bob Heckel <bheckel@foobar.com>
>  To: foo@foo.org
>  ...snip
>...

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Mutt mailbox corruption during delete

[Bob Heckel]

While using mutt 1.2.5i (2000-07-28) I've noticed mailbox
corruption after performing delete commands.  I thought it might
be Cygwin related since I was unable to find it mentioned on the
mutt mailing list and because textfiles are involved.

After I delete a message, the mailbox file ends up re-written with
partial 'From' lines at the start of many, but not all, of the
messages.  I think this alters mutt's recalculation of
'Content-Length:' on that message by including the partial 'From'
line.  The error cascades on the rest of the messages in the
mailbox.

Same problem occurs regardless of Unix or DOS formatted mailboxes.
My mounts are binmode. Here's my uname -a output: 
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 THEBOX 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) 2001-05-20 23:28 i686 unknown

Sample mailbox:
  ...snip

  Fro
  From bheckel@foob
  From bheckel@foobar.com Sat Jul 21 22:04:18 2001
  Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 22:04:18 -0400
  From: Bob Heckel <bheckel@foobar.com>
  To: foo@foo.org
  ...snip

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Bob Heckel

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