Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/05/20/13:24:44
On Tue, 20 May 2003, Peter Davis wrote:
> I'm using mutt 1.4i under Cygwin on Windows XP. My apologies for
> cross-posting, but I'm really not sure if the problems I'm having are
> mutt issues or Cygwin issues. (Probably XP issues, but there's not
> much help for that.)
>
> I'm running XP on two different systems. One (home) was formerly NT4,
> and one (work) was formerly Win2000. In upgrading to both of these
> systems, some new problems with mutt were introduced. Specifically:
>
> 1) Mutt no longer can tell which mailboxes contain new mail. Once I
> open the mailbox, the new messages are correctly marked, but when
> I'm looking for a mailbox with unread messages, mutt doesn't detect
> any. This used to work correctly under NT4, but *not* under
> Win2000. It may have to do with changes in how Windows handles
> file protections, but I've tried to un-protect these files in every
> imaginable way, and still can't get this to work.
>
> I've looked at the mutt code somewhat, and it appears that mutt is
> checking the timestamp on the .mh_sequences file to detect
> mailboxes with new messages, but actually reading the .mh_sequences
> file to mark the new messages. So it seems as if mutt is able to
> read the file, but not to get the correct timestamp. That seems
> very weird to me.
Peter,
This one is most likely an XP protection issue. IIRC, the timestamp is
not stored in the file itself, but in a directory containing that file.
Therefore, you'll need to allow the same read access to the directory
containing the .mh_sequences file that you allow for the file itself.
> 2) I have some Perl scripts I run from mutt. One of them parses a
> piped in email message and records some information from the
> message header. This works fine if I am viewing the message in
> mutt's pager, and pipe it to the script. But if I tag some
> messages in mutt's index, and try to pipe them all (I do have
> pipe_split set to "yes"), I get "File not found" errors on the Perl
> script. This used to work on both NT and Win2000.
Can you insert some debugging print statements into the Perl scripts
themselves, and see *exactly* which files they try to open (including
whitespace and special characters)? This may be the line ending issue all
over again... Or, it could be a shell quoting issue (if mutt passes
backslashes through a shell without properly escaping them)
> I'm willing to try debugging mutt, but I'm not sure what's a
> reasonable way to debug a curses-based application in a Cygwin
> environment. I'm open to any suggestions here.
>
> Any clues on any of this?
>
> Thanks very much.
> -pd
Hope the above helps,
Igor
--
http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/
|\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu
ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com
|,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski
'---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow!
"I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route
to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
- Raw text -