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Re: Really strange 'new messages' problem



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On Sunday, December  9 at 04:50 PM, quoth Chris G:
>I have just had the shell account where I read my mail moved from a
>FreeBSD system to a Linux one.  I was using mutt 1.5.16 on the FreeBSD
>system, I'm using 1.5.17 on the Linux system.  I have the same home
>directory on both systems so my muttrc file is unchanged (except for
>removing sentmail from the mailboxes line).
>
>I'm getting an odd effect when I log in to read new mail, the busier
>mailing lists' mail appears in two chunks.  I.e. I see new mail in the
>fedora mailing list mailbox, I open it and read, say, 20 messages.  I
>then go to the next mailing list (possibly mutt) read messages there
>and then, immediately afterwards the next new messages are 50 or so in
>the fedora mailbox again.  There's no way they're really new or have
>arrived since the first lot.  This wasn't happening in the FreeBSD
>environment, does anyone have any ideas what might be causing it?

Is it possible that there's some sort of locking issue, where those 
messages are being held in the mail queue and after mutt cleans the 
lock your MTA is suddenly delivering them all?

~Kyle
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