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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 17:16:13 -0400
From: Bob Heckel <cywgin DOT 20 DOT bheckel AT spamgourmet DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Mutt mailbox corruption during delete
Message-ID: <20010824171613.B1392@HECKEL>
Reply-To: cywgin DOT 20 DOT bheckel AT spamgourmet DOT com
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It turns out that one of my mount points was set as textmode (which
the mutt Cygwin documentation warns against).  That was the source
of the problem.  My fault.  At least the mailing list archive now
contains an example of what happens if you use mutt under textmode.

FWIW, mutt on Cygwin would be worth using even if I couldn't use the
mailboxes (but Windows wouldn't be worth using if I couldn't use
Cygwin)...

Bob Heckel

>...
>After I delete a message, the mailbox file ends up re-written with
>partial 'From' lines at the start of many, but not all, of the
>messages.  I think this alters mutt's recalculation of
>'Content-Length:' on that message by including the partial 'From'
>line.  The error cascades on the rest of the messages in the
>mailbox.
>
>Same problem occurs regardless of Unix or DOS formatted mailboxes.
>My mounts are binmode. Here's my uname -a output: 
>CYGWIN_NT-5.0 THEBOX 1.3.2(0.39/3/2) 2001-05-20 23:28 i686 unknown
>
>Sample mailbox:
>  ...snip
>
>  Fro
>  From bheckel AT foob
>  From bheckel AT foobar DOT com Sat Jul 21 22:04:18 2001
>  Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 22:04:18 -0400
>  From: Bob Heckel <bheckel AT foobar DOT com>
>  To: foo AT foo DOT org
>  ...snip
>...

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