Mutt stops showing mail contents

[Josef Wolf]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 11:51:56AM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 11:16:23AM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:
> 
> Are these mbox format mailboxes?

Yes. I'm planning to move to maildirs for a long time, but have not managed to
actually do this yet.

> When the problem occurs, would you mind trying a few things:
>
> * Try to <pipe-message> to less.
> 
> * Without exiting mutt, try changing $tmpdir to an existing temporary
> directory in your home dir and see if that changes anything:
>   :set tmpdir = "~/tmp"
> 
> * See if the mutt process is leaking file descriptors by getting the pid and
> running `lsof -p <pid>`.

Thanks! I'll try this when it happens again. This can take some time.

> > 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.
> 
> Does Mutt even show the attribution header in the reply?

What is the attribution 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.
> 
> So, it's able to open the new mailbox, parse it, and display the messages in
> the index, but you can't view a message or its attachments?

Exactly. If I select a message, it even shows the header of the message. But no
body and no attachmets.

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Josef Wolf
jw at raven.inka.de