Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 18:04:04 -0400 From: Peter Davis To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: mutt-dev@mutt.org, mutt-users@mutt.org Subject: Re: Cygwin, mutt, Windows XP issues Message-ID: <20030524220404.GA2864@bitstream.com> Mail-Followup-To: Peter Davis , cygwin@cygwin.com, mutt-dev@mutt.org, mutt-users@mutt.org References: <20030524115323.GA4424@bitstream.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i I've been wrestling for weeks, or even months, with a mutt problem. It worked beautifully under Cygwin on Windows NT, but *not* under Windows 2000 or XP. Specifically, mutt couldn't figure out which mailboxes had new mail. Once I opened a mailbox, mutt identified the new messages correctly, but it couldn't tell me which mailboxes to look in. I suspected, and others suggested, it was a file protection problem, but I couldn't find anything suspicious about that, and I tried to un-protect all files and folders as much as possible, and still couldn't fix the problem. It was the size! Mutt does a stat on each mail folder. On NT4, this returned a value in st_size. In WIn2000 and XP, however, this seems to return 0 in st_size. Mutt assumes this means the mailbox was newly created (a foolish assumption with MH folders), and doesn't check further for new mail. So I took out the " ... || sb.st_size == 0 || ... " part of the test, and mutt seems to be working again. I think the main issue is that Cygwin somehow changed so that stat() returns st_size=0 for directories, and it didn't used to. I also think mutt should *not* assume st_size==0 implies a new mailbox (in mutt_buffy_check in buffy.c), since this may not be correctly with MH or maildir mail structures. -pd -- -------- Peter Davis Pageflex Inc 617-520-8345 215 First Street 617-868-0784 (FAX) Cambridge, MA 02142 pdavis@pageflexinc.com http://www.pageflexinc.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/