#3542: mutt sometimes fails to detect new messages in the current maildir
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Reporter: AopicieR | Owner: mutt-dev
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: maildir/mh | Version: 1.5.21
Keywords: |
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My inbox is a local maildir and I use "set timeout=1". Say my inbox is the
current folder. Normally mutt will display any new mail to my inbox with a
delay of at most one second. However when receiving a lot of new message
more or less at the same time it sometimes happens that mutt will only
detect some of them at all. The following command reproduces this rather
reliably for me:
{{{
$ for (( i=1; i<=20; i++ )); do mail -s kBqYKThe5q $USER < /dev/null; done
}}}
If I run this command mutt will (in maybe 2 out of 5 cases) only detect
one or two of the 20 new messages. The only way I have found to make it
find all the new messages is to explicitly open my inbox again with "c!".
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/3542>
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