On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 09:20:05PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
[snip my mutt/mbox/NFS issues]
Can someone clarify something for me please, ignore NFS and assume I'm
running mutt and the mail delivery agent on the same system on a local
hard disk.
If I open my inbox with mutt and leave it displaying the index of the
inbox on the screen what should happen when a new message is delivered
to the inbox?
Should it:-
1 - Not get delivered because mutt has the inbox locked and the
delivery agent can't open it for writing.
2 - Be delivered and appear correctly to mutt as a new message
added at the bottom of the index listing with an 'N' beside it.
3 - Be delivered but cause mutt to complain "Mailbox was
externally modified. Flags may be wrong."
4 - Something else.
What I'm getting is 3 above which seems wrong to me, I suspect it is
the underlying problem for my NFS issue, I just get a different error
when viewing the mbox via NFS.
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Chris Green
