mutt and not really read only mailboxes

2012-08-23 Thread Joerg Dorchain
Hello, I have a setup where my MTA delivers mail to an mbox file, which then is in turn exported via nfs read only to the client where mutt is running. Main purpose of this construction is viewing certain attachments. While all this works fine the first time mutt is started, after a while there

Re: mutt and not really read only mailboxes

2012-08-23 Thread Christian Brabandt
On Thu, August 23, 2012 08:53, Joerg Dorchain wrote: I have a setup where my MTA delivers mail to an mbox file, which then is in turn exported via nfs read only to the client where mutt is running. Main purpose of this construction is viewing certain attachments. While all this works fine

Re: mutt and not really read only mailboxes

2012-08-23 Thread Joerg Dorchain
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:28:35AM +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote: On Thu, August 23, 2012 08:53, Joerg Dorchain wrote: I have a setup where my MTA delivers mail to an mbox file, which then is in turn exported via nfs read only to the client where mutt is running. Main purpose of this

Re: mutt and not really read only mailboxes

2012-08-23 Thread Joerg Dorchain
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:39:25AM +0200, Joerg Dorchain wrote: If just seems that mutt does not check for new mails at all when it considers a mailbox read only. I need to correct myself: With an strace, I see that mutt does a stat() on the mbox file with every keypress while in the index

Re: mutt and not really read only mailboxes

2012-08-23 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 01:24:40PM +0200, Joerg Dorchain wrote: However, it then forks the mutt_dotlock process, which fails because it the filesystem with the mbox is readonly. The source from mbox.c reads if (mbox_lock_mailbox (ctx, 0, 0) == -1) { mutt_unblock_signals

Search for threads with flagged mail

2012-08-23 Thread Alexis Letessier
Hello, Is there a filter to select threads containing flagged mail? BTW, i've asked a similar question about finding mails with text/calendar attachments but the ~b filter is way too slow to be usable. I only need to change the color of these mails in the index. I saw the RFC on mutt-dev about

Re: Search for threads with flagged mail

2012-08-23 Thread David Champion
* On 23 Aug 2012, Alexis Letessier wrote: Hello, Is there a filter to select threads containing flagged mail? ~(~F) BTW, i've asked a similar question about finding mails with text/calendar attachments but the ~b filter is way too slow to be usable. I only need to change the color of

Colour issues in mutt under S-Lang

2012-08-23 Thread Daniel P. Wright
Hello, I've been trying to tweak my colour scheme recently, and found some strange functionality which I don't understand. I'm not sure if it's a bug or an error in my configuration -- and if it is a bug I don't know whether it lies in mutt, or s-lang, or my terminal. The problem is as follows: