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Re: Will repeating an entry in 'mailboxes' cause any problems?



On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 05:16:46PM +0100, Rocco Rutte wrote:
> Hi,
>
> * Chris G wrote:
>> I have a mailboxes line as follows:-
>
>>    mailboxes  ~/Mail/In/inbox `echo ~/Mail/Li/*` `echo ~/Mail/In/*`
>
>> Obviously the ~/Mail/In/inbox will appear twice because it's in `echo
>> ~/Mail/In/*` as well.  Will this cause any problems (there are entries
>> which come after inbox in `echo ~/Mail/In/*`)?
>
> No, mutt filters out duplicates (start it with 'mutt -y' and you see what 
> mailboxes it kwows).
>
>> I'm asking because it *seems* as if it's making mutt fail to see new
>> mail in the mailboxes after inbox and I'm trying to work out why.
>
> Then something else must be wrong because between the first "inbox" and the 
> second one there're folders from ~/Mail/Li/*. Or do you mean the first 
> "inbox"?
>
No, I *thought* I got mail into ~/Mail/In/bcs that mutt didn't see as
new mail.  I have been doing quite a few changes recently though so
I'm going to suspend judgement until I see another case or two of this
happening.


> What does "seems" mean? Does it report new mail or not?
>
It didn't report one mail message as new but marked the mailbox as
having new mail when I navigated to it.


> If not, answering these may help finding the cause: Are you using mbox? Can 
> you send the output of 'stat ...' for a mailbox which has new mail mutt 
> fails to detect (if you have that command)? What mutt version are you 
> using? Do you have BUFFY_SIZE built in or not (mutt -v | grep BUFFY_SIZE)?
>
I'm using all maildir now.

As I said I'll suspend judgement until I see further cases of the same
problem.

-- 
Chris Green