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Bug 29449

Summary: Mutt reports new mail in all mailboxes all the time
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Helge Haugland <h>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Net-Mail Packages <net-mail+disabled>
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Helge Haugland 2003-09-23 11:45:07 UTC
Mutt reports new mail in every mailbox all the time. When viewing another
mailbox, c always open my primary inbox.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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resolved by compiling mutt with --enable-buffy-size:


 # diff -u /usr/portage/net-mail/mutt/mutt-1.5.4-r1.ebuild mutt-1.5.4-r2.ebuild
--- /usr/portage/net-mail/mutt/mutt-1.5.4-r1.ebuild     2003-09-18
20:42:26.000000000 +0200
+++ mutt-1.5.4-r2.ebuild        2003-09-23 20:24:21.000000000 +0200
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@
                --with-regex --enable-pop --enable-nfs-fix \
                --disable-fcntl --enable-flock --enable-external-dotlock \
                --enable-compressed \
+               --enable-buffy-size \
                --enable-imap-edit-threads \
                ${myconf} || die
Comment 1 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2003-10-28 11:52:54 UTC
could you please explain the problem in some more depth? I'm a longtime mutt
user and i've never run across this problem.

see my mutt configs if you are interested:
http://www.orbis-terrarum.net/~robbat2/mutt/
Comment 2 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2004-01-05 16:17:10 UTC
no response from user.