Mutt stops showing mail contents

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On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 11:16:23AM +0100, Josef Wolf <jw at raven.inka.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am using mutt for about twwenty years now and am happy so far.
> 
> Usually, I start mutt in a screen session and let it run for a long time,
> until I need to reboot the system. This way, I can ssh to my mail host from
> everywhere and resume the screen session with the running mutt at any time.
> 
> But last week, mutt started to mis-behave.
> 
> Mutt starts up as always and works as expected. But after some time, it stops
> to show mail contents. It still shows the sidebar with all existing folders
> and the list of messages in the current folder. But no message bodies or
> attachments are shown at all.
> 
> Mutt stops not only to show the contents, but also when replying to a mail
> with quote, I end up in an emacs with nothing but the header. So mutt forgets
> all the mail contents except the header.
> 
> Changing to a different mail or even to a different folder don't help. The
> only way is to quit mutt and start again. Then it works again for several
> hours or even days, just to eventually stop showing mail contents again.
> 
> This is mutt-1.10.1 on opensuse-leap-15.1
> 
> Any help to track this down?
> 
> Might this be a problem with the size of my inbox (currently 2.9gB)?
> 
> -- 
> Josef Wolf
> jw at raven.inka.de

You might want to check /var/log/kern.log for I/O errors.