Quoth Chris G on Monday, 09 August 2010: > 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. > > -- > Chris Green
I get (2), but only after keyboard input or the input timeout occurs. Version 1.4.2.3i on FreeBSD. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | [email protected] | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com
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