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mutt/2134: Mutt does not use different exit-codes depending on whatever



>Number:         2134
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>Category:       mutt
>Synopsis:       Mutt does not use different exit-codes depending on whatever
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       normal
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    mutt-dev
>State:          open
>Keywords:       
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Nov 10 17:56:59 +0100 2005
>Originator:     Sven Utcke
>Release:        1.4.1i
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>Description:
Hi,

I'm using mutt inside a script where glimpse selects messages from
various mailboxes and assembles them all in a temporary mailbox.

However, sometimes glimpse doesn't get it quite right, and mutt will
report:

/tmp/glimpse.21144/mboxfind.results is not a mailbox.

Which, indeed, it isn't.  However, my script will never know about
this, since mutt returns 0 as its exit code anyway, and happily delete
the file instead of doing something useful.

So, in short, I would really ask for different exit codes for mutt, at
least for the above case, but quite possibly for some other cases too
(everytime mutt exits even though I didn't ask it to exit, I guess...)

Help very much appreciated

Sven
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