On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 10:39:57PM +1000, onefang wrote:
> 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?
Mutt 1.10.1 (2018-07-13)
beowulf
When I asked mutt to report its version it produced several pages of self-identicication.
mutt itself did not change when I moved /var/mail from one partition to another.
I did no system upgrade at the same time.
But I'm wondering if there's something weird involving the file system.
-- hendrik
>
> 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
>
> --
> 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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