Mutt stops showing mail body (maybe https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1179461)
Hello, since a couple of weeks I experience a problem with mutt. At some point in time, mutt stops showing mail bodies. Once this happens, the only way to stop mutt from mis-behavong is to quit and start a new instance. I started a thread for this problem on the mutt mailing list: http://lists.mutt.org/pipermail/mutt-users/Week-of-Mon-20201214/002262.html http://lists.mutt.org/pipermail/mutt-users/Week-of-Mon-20201221/002282.html and the people over there deduced that my problem might be related to https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1179461 But for me, the symptomps see to be somwhat different: - In the bug, the problem seems to be related to search, while for me, simply displaying some mail triggers the problem. - In the bug, the problem seems to be reproducible. There exists even an archive of the gcc mailing list to reproduce. For me, the problem is triggered ramdomly in pretty much every folder. No matter whether mbox or maildir or whatever. - In the bug, the problem seems to be triggered only when attachments are present in the mail. For me, the bug is triggered even if there are no attachments at all in the displayed messages. I just confirmed that by alternately showing http://lists.mutt.org/pipermail/mutt-users/Week-of-Mon-20201214/002273.html http://lists.mutt.org/pipermail/mutt-users/Week-of-Mon-20201214/002274.html jumping back and forth between those two messages, which both do not have any attachments. This way I could trigger the problem by not touching any attachments at all. So I am curious: is it really the same bug? Or should I file a new one? -- Josef Wolf jw@raven.inka.de
Hello, On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 12:43:42PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:
since a couple of weeks I experience a problem with mutt. At some point in time, mutt stops showing mail bodies. Once this happens, the only way to stop mutt from mis-behavong is to quit and start a new instance.
I've seen that, too.
But for me, the symptomps see to be somwhat different:
- In the bug, the problem seems to be related to search, while for me, simply displaying some mail triggers the problem.
Yes.
- In the bug, the problem seems to be reproducible. There exists even an archive of the gcc mailing list to reproduce. For me, the problem is triggered ramdomly in pretty much every folder. No matter whether mbox or maildir or whatever.
Yes. I'm using Maildir, BTW.
- In the bug, the problem seems to be triggered only when attachments are present in the mail. For me, the bug is triggered even if there are no attachments at all in the displayed messages.
Not sure. I haven't been able to trigger the problem just now.
So I am curious: is it really the same bug? Or should I file a new one?
If in doubt, file a new one. The symptoms seem to be disparate enough, even if the underlying cause should be the same. A. -- Ansgar Esztermann Sysadmin Dep. Theoretical and Computational Biophysics http://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/grubmueller/esztermann
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Ansgar Esztermann-Kirchner
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Josef Wolf