Is it supposed to be possible to deliver mail while mutt has the mbox open?

2013-03-20 Thread Chris Green
What is supposed to happen in the following scenario:- I'm viewing my incoming mail (inbox), looking at the index view in mutt. Some new mail arrives, delivered by procmail/python script/whatever to the inbox. Is there supposed to be some mechanism whereby mutt recognises that all

Re: Is it supposed to be possible to deliver mail while mutt has the mbox open?

2013-03-20 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 20.03.13 13:14, Chris Green wrote: What is supposed to happen in the following scenario:- I'm viewing my incoming mail (inbox), looking at the index view in mutt. Some new mail arrives, delivered by procmail/python script/whatever to the inbox. Is there supposed to be

Re: Is it supposed to be possible to deliver mail while mutt has the mbox open?

2013-03-20 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 01:05:27AM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote: On 20.03.13 13:14, Chris Green wrote: What is supposed to happen in the following scenario:- I'm viewing my incoming mail (inbox), looking at the index view in mutt. Some new mail arrives, delivered by

Re: Is it supposed to be possible to deliver mail while mutt has the mbox open?

2013-03-20 Thread Chris Green
What I want to know is:- Is it possible for a message to be delivered into an mbox that mutt is looking at without provoking the Mailbox was externally modified message? If the above is possible then what does the delivering MTA have to do so that the delivered

Re: Is it supposed to be possible to deliver mail while mutt has the mbox open?

2013-03-20 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 20.03.13 14:11, Chris Green wrote: What I want to know is:- Is it possible for a message to be delivered into an mbox that mutt is looking at without provoking the Mailbox was externally modified message? Yes. Here the message is New mail in this mailbox. (Confirmed by

Re: Is it supposed to be possible to deliver mail while mutt has the mbox open?

2013-03-20 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 02:58:58PM +, Chris Green wrote: What I want to know is:- Is it possible for a message to be delivered into an mbox that mutt is looking at without provoking the Mailbox was externally modified message? If the above is possible then

Re: Is it supposed to be possible to deliver mail while mutt has the mbox open?

2013-03-20 Thread David Champion
* On 20 Mar 2013, Chris Green wrote: I suspect my MTA doesn't agree exactly with mutt about where the 'message separator' is. When your script delivers a message, does it append a message and then a blank line, or does it append a blank line and then a message? -- David Champion •

Re: Is it supposed to be possible to deliver mail while mutt has the mbox open?

2013-03-20 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:11:06AM -0500, David Champion wrote: * On 20 Mar 2013, Chris Green wrote: I suspect my MTA doesn't agree exactly with mutt about where the 'message separator' is. When your script delivers a message, does it append a message and then a blank line, or does it

Re: Is it supposed to be possible to deliver mail while mutt has the mbox open?

2013-03-20 Thread David Champion
* On 20 Mar 2013, Chris Green wrote: Has the mutt handling of this changed in the last few versions? Not that I know of, and I doubt it. The python way of doing this is correct according to the RFC as far as I can tell, there *should* be a blank line between the end of a message and the

Re: Is it supposed to be possible to deliver mail while mutt has the mbox open?

2013-03-20 Thread raf
Chris Green wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:11:06AM -0500, David Champion wrote: * On 20 Mar 2013, Chris Green wrote: I suspect my MTA doesn't agree exactly with mutt about where the 'message separator' is. When your script delivers a message, does it append a message and