On 2023-05-20 08:25:38, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> I moved my /var/mail partition to a different disk drive
> by:
> creating a new ext4 partition
> mounting it as /newvarmail
> copying the contents of the old /var/mail partition to it
> unmounting both the old and new mail partitions
> updating the /etc/fstab entry by
> chainging the partition name
> changing the file system to ext4 from ext3
> mounting the new one as /ver/mail
> Everything seems to work smoothly except for one thing:
> When I read a new message in mutt, the 'N' indicaating it is new does not disappear after reading it.
Which version of mutt in which version of Devuan?
Earlier versions where neomutt renamed to mutt by Debian, but then they
renamed neomutt back to neomutt in more recent versions. Personally I
found that neomutt seems to grow more and more bugs in later versions.
Randomly marking half a dozen emails for deletion each timwe I changed
mail folders was the last straw, so I moved back to the ASCII version.
> (And one time only, mutt mentioned that the mail file was read-only.)
>
> ls tells me
> -rw------- 1 hendrik mail 102495117 May 20 08:06 hendrik
> and for the old var/mail, it tells me
> -rw------- 1 hendrik mail 102369929 May 20 07:34 /oldvarmail/hendrik
>
> much the same except that I seem to have received some more mail.
>
> -- hendrik
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A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants
coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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