Package: mutt
Version: 1.5.11+cvs20060403-1
Severity: normal
DESCRIPTION
1. Install mutt
2. Start it for the first time
3. have ~/Maildir full of messages and ~/.muttrc
set spoolfile = ~/Maildir/
4. Start composing reply to someone
5. Send message with "y"
The program stop and displays:
Couldn't lock /home/foo/sent?
PROBLEM
The error message isn't very descriptive. Did the program try to lock
a file? Is there problem while locking .... The problem is not specified.
Looking at the default composed message reveals that there is field:
Fcc: ~/sent
added by default
SUGGESTION
1) Program shoudl not add Fcc by default, especially when directory does
not exist.
2) The error message should be clear enough to indicate the error reason.
In this case better erro rmessage would have been:
Cannot save message. Directory does not exist ~/sent. Check Fcc field
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Versions of packages mutt depends on:
ii exim4-daemon-heavy [mai 4.61-1 exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended
ii libc6 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdb4.4 4.4.20-4 Berkeley v4.4 Database Libraries [
ii libgnutls12 1.2.9-2 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libidn11 0.5.18-2 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libncursesw5 5.5-1.1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsasl2 2.1.19.dfsg1-0.2 Authentication abstraction library
Versions of packages mutt recommends:
ii locales 2.3.6-7 GNU C Library: National Language (
ii mime-support 3.36-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
-- no debconf information
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
