compose problem: empty message is created
Hello all!
I'm having a strange problem.
Here's the brief summary: using mutt 1.5.4i, when I try to reply
to a message (or compose a message), my editor (I've tried vim and
pico) comes up with a blank message. In the case of a reply, the
message I'm replying to is not there. In the case of compose, my
signature is not there.
Longer summary:
I'm a longtime mutt user, and run mutt successfully on my laptop and
my desktop. There is a remote machine that I want to run mutt on.
mutt 0.95.4us is installed on that machine and works just fine --
I can read message, I can reply to messages, etc.
When I build mutt 1.5.4i (which is the version I use at home) with the
compressed mailbox patch on that particular machine, replies and
composes come up as blank messages.
I have tried this with a null muttrc, and with a different editor.
As I said, it works fine with 0.95.4us with an identical configuration.
I'm running out of ideas for debugging. Here are some relavant
points, though:
o My mail folders are on an NFS mounted home directory
o The older version of mutt uses ncurses 1.9.9g, the newer
version uses ncurses 4.0
o The configurations of the two mutts (via 'mutt -v') look
very similar.
o The tmpdir for the messages exists, and is writable, and
the editor appears to find the correct filename.
o I've also tried different tmpdirs, with the same result.
I'm happy to do some legwork, including version hopping, but am
looking for a direction to go in. I can supply more information,
too.