Mutt stops showing mail contents

[Josef Wolf]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 03:03:29PM +0100, Joerg Dorchain wrote:
> 
> I had a similiar effect when for obscure reasons /tmp was not writeable.

Thanks for the suggestion, Joerg!

   raven:/ # ls -ld /tmp/
   drwxrwxrwt 17 root root 680 Dec 18 15:46 /tmp/
   raven:/ # df -h /tmp/
   Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
   tmpfs           2.0G  884K  2.0G   1% /tmp
   raven:/ #

I guess this should be OK.

When /tmp is not writable, I usually see two problems:
1. On exit, mutt complains that it can't purge deleted messages.
2. When writing a mail, mutt won't be able to create the temporary file with
   the mail header in it.

But I don't see both of those symptoms:
1. On exit, Mutt happily rewrites the mailbox file and purges deleted
   messages. Even the mail contents of not deleted mails are preserved.
2. When writing a mail, the temporary file IS created with proper header lines
   and signature. Only the quoted part is missing when replying.

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Josef Wolf
jw at raven.inka.de