Re: Confused balsa ?

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 02:34:43PM +0200, M . Thielker wrote:
> On 2001.09.16 14:11 Christian Bockermann wrote:
> > in the list archive - that's not the problem. But when I look in my inbox
> > I only find a mail with no sender, no subject and the date 01.01.1970.
> > 
> > Exiting balsa and starting it again shows the "correct" message with
> > sender, subject, body and so on. It seems to me, that this only happens
> > after balsa running for some time. 
> 
> I'm also seeing this. It appears to be a libmutt problem. It only occurs
> when the inbox is of the mbox type, as the system spool normally is.
> If you create a maildir mailbox in your home directory, designate it as
> inbox and remove the reference to the system spool (e.g. delete the mailbox
> in Balsa) the problem _should_ go away. I haven't tested it yet, but I
> believe I'm right on this.
> 

hum, i use mbox on ~/mail/ and never seen it. that are the permissions of
/var/spool/mail ? could it be balsa can't touch/restat the mailbox and
"discover" the new mail ?

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