Mutt stops showing mail contents

Josef Wolf jw at raven.inka.de
Sat Dec 19 20:26:55 UTC 2020


On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 10:18:22AM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 01:44:37PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 11:51:56AM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> > > Does Mutt even show the attribution header in the reply?
> > 
> > What is the attribution header?
> 
> Sorry I shouldn't have said "header".  I meant the value of $attribution
> that is prepended to the quoted text in a reply.  Like the
>   On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 01:44:37PM +0100, Josef Wolf wrote:
> at the top of this email.

Ah.

AFAIR, this line is present in. But I'll give more attention on that next time.

> > > > 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.
> 
> What if you invoke the <view-attachments> menu, from the index and from the
> pager?

AFAIR, it is completely empty. Even the text/plain entry that indicates the
normal body is missing.

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> Kevin J. McCarthy
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Josef Wolf
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