commit: bc0bf470ba2e27748ef266e7bd0e97bebbbd0c23 Author: Matthew Smith <matthew <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Sun Jun 26 08:25:30 2022 +0000 Commit: Matthew Smith <matthew <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Fri Jul 1 07:54:15 2022 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=bc0bf470
2022-06-26-mu-corruption: new entry Add a news item explaining a maildir corruption bug in the mu/mu4e mail reader. Signed-off-by: Matthew Smith <matthew <AT> gentoo.org> .../2022-06-06-mu-corruption.en.txt | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/2022-06-26-mu-corruption/2022-06-06-mu-corruption.en.txt b/2022-06-26-mu-corruption/2022-06-06-mu-corruption.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2108c99 --- /dev/null +++ b/2022-06-26-mu-corruption/2022-06-06-mu-corruption.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Title: Mu 1.7.23 Causing Maildir Corruption +Author: Matthew Smith <[email protected]> +Posted: 2022-06-26 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: net-mail/mu-1.7.23 + +Development versions of mu between 1.7.18 and 1.7.25 have a bug causing +mail file names to sometimes get mangled after moving messages between +directories. Symptoms include unread messages never being marked as +read. + +Affected messages have the ':2,' flag appended multiple times. Using the +following commands, users can remove the extra flags. + + find ~/Maildir -name '*:2,*:*' | + sed "s/\(\([^:]*\)\(:2,\)\{1,\}\(:2,.*$\)\)/mv '\0' '\2\4'/" \ + > rename.sh + # review rename.sh. empty file indicates that you are unaffected + sh rename.sh + +Upstream issue: https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/2268
