Re: how to prevent external commands from being substituted in

[lee]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:53:32PM -0700, Brandon Sandrowicz wrote:
  macro index .a enter-commandunmailboxes *enter \
  enter-commandmailboxes \`mutt-mb -line 4 
  ~/Mail\`enter
 
 It's the space that you have in there. That space is just like you
 hitting the space bar while sitting in the index (since after the first
 enter there is command being constructed).

You're right, it works without the space. Thanks!

Couldn't lock /var/mail/russ? message when trying to access mail

[Russell Urquhart]

Hi,

I recently had to restart my system (os x) and now, in mutt, when i try and 
search for new mail (shift-g) i get the Couldn't lock message.

I am able to send mail out. Did something not get locked properly?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,


Russ

Re: Couldn't lock /var/mail/russ? message when trying to access

[lee]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 08:38:42AM -0500, Russell Urquhart wrote:
 
 
 Hi,
 
 I recently had to restart my system (os x) and now, in mutt, when i try and 
 search for new mail (shift-g) i get the Couldn't lock message.
 
 I am able to send mail out. Did something not get locked properly?

Perhaps there's a stale lock file somewhere? That might make mutt
think that there is a lock when there isn't any and prevent it from
obtaining a lock itself. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly what to
look for.