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Autor: Gastón
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A: dng
Assumpte: Re: [DNG] mail mysteriously read-only
On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 08:25:38AM -0400, 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.

>
> (And one time only, mutt mentioned that the mail file was read-only.)
>


It may be silly, but have you tried pressing the key combination:
"SHIFT + %" ?

Sometimes I have mistakenly pressed that key combination and it put my
mailbox in read-only mode.

I have Mutt 2.0.5 (2021-01-21) in Devuan Chimaera.

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~gast0n