Mutt

[nhdesign]

Hi,

Per mutt_hep.sh I added to my muttrc

set spoolfile="imaps://[email protected]/INBOX"
set folder="imaps://[email protected]/INBOX"

After I enter my passwd the following flashes by

Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2018-03-02 13:42:27]

After which mutt opens without any mail and this error across the bottom
Error opening mailbox

Thanks,
Vic

[scott]

Hi,

Per mutt_hep.sh I added to my muttrc

set spoolfile="imaps://[email protected]/INBOX"
set folder="imaps://[email protected]/INBOX"

After I enter my passwd the following flashes by

Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2018-03-02 13:42:27]

After which mutt opens without any mail and this error across the bottom
Error opening mailbox

Thanks,
Vic

Hi Vic,

This was an error from Dovecot (the IMAP server software) relating to the filename on the mail spool. On our system, the filename caches the size -- if there is a size cached, and it doesn't match the file on disk, Dovecot reports that as an i/o error.

However, it's also supposed to fix the filename on disk to reflect the proper size of the file. If you use mutt again after this, do you still see the same error?

Regarding why the cached size would be different than the actual size of the file, we haven't figured that out yet, but it could be a procmail rule gone awry. I'll dig into that and see if I can find out anything.

-Scott

[nhdesign]

Fetching message headers... 450/517 (87%)

Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more information. [2018-03-04 06:04:24]

Is there more to change in my muttrc than those two lines?

--
Vic

[nhdesign]

It works.
I kept trying, the fourth or fifth time it worked.
Sending mail is working too.

[nhdesign]

yup, definitely works.

[nhdesign]

#!/bin/sh
#newmail-semaphore
#20180304

# Anyone?
# Little help?
# The script newmail-maildir written by someone a long time ago does not work with imap.
# I have procmail touch $HOME/.mail-semaphore with every mail that arrives.
# Then have this script run every few minutes by crontab and print an alert to the screen.
# It does not work because I don't know what I am doing. Hopefully you see the intent and can fix it.
# Thanks,
# Vic


### check is mail-semaphore has a later timestamp than mail-semaphore-flag

if [[ "$HOME/.mail-semaphore-flag" -lt "$HOME/.mail-semaphore" ]]

then

### printed $HOME/.mail-semaphore to the screen.

cat $HOME/.mail-semaphore > /dev/tty

touch -r $HOME/.mail-semaphore $HOME/.mail-semaphore-flag

fi


### from my .procmailrc
#
# SEMAPHORE=$HOME/.mail-semaphore
#
# :0c
# *
# | head -1 > $SEMAPHORE
#
#

[scott]

#!/bin/sh
#newmail-semaphore
#20180304

# Anyone?
# Little help?
# The script newmail-maildir written by someone a long time ago does not work with imap.
# I have procmail touch $HOME/.mail-semaphore with every mail that arrives.
# Then have this script run every few minutes by crontab and print an alert to the screen.
# It does not work because I don't know what I am doing. Hopefully you see the intent and can fix it.
# Thanks,
# Vic


### check is mail-semaphore has a later timestamp than mail-semaphore-flag

if [[ "$HOME/.mail-semaphore-flag" -lt "$HOME/.mail-semaphore" ]]

then

### printed $HOME/.mail-semaphore to the screen.

cat $HOME/.mail-semaphore > /dev/tty

touch -r $HOME/.mail-semaphore $HOME/.mail-semaphore-flag

fi


### from my .procmailrc
#
# SEMAPHORE=$HOME/.mail-semaphore
#
# :0c
# *
# | head -1 > $SEMAPHORE
#
#

Hi Vic,

Your script almost works, except it tries to write to the tty associated with the cron job, instead of your login shell. I don't even think cronjobs have terminals attached to them.

I've written a script -- /usr/local/bin/tellme.pl -- which will write whatever is fed to it on stdin to all terminals associated with your login shells. So, whatever you pipe into it should print on your terminal.

Let me know what you think.

-Scott

[nhdesign]

No luck yet.

This line fails.
if [[ "$HOME/.mail-semaphore-flag" -lt "$HOME/.mail-semaphore" ]]

sh.sonic.net:nhdesign:/home/n/nhdesign 30 % newmail-semaphore
/home/n/nhdesign/bin/newmail-semaphore: line 20: [[: /home/n/nhdesign/.mail-semaphore-flag: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "/home/n/nhdesign/.mail-semaphore-flag")



Should this work from the command line or only from within cron?

sh.sonic.net:nhdesign:/home/n/nhdesign 31 % cat $HOME/.mail-semaphore > /usr/local/bin/tellme.pl
/usr/local/bin/tellme.pl: Read-only file system.




#!/bin/sh
#newmail-semaphore
#20180305


### check is mail-semaphore has a later timestamp than mail-semaphore-flag

if [[ "$HOME/.mail-semaphore-flag" -lt "$HOME/.mail-semaphore" ]]

then

### printed $HOME/.mail-semaphore to the screen.
# cat $HOME/.mail-semaphore > /dev/tty

cat $HOME/.mail-semaphore > /usr/local/bin/tellme.pl

touch -r $HOME/.mail-semaphore $HOME/.mail-semaphore-flag

fi

### from my .procmailrc
#
# SEMAPHORE=$HOME/.mail-semaphore
#
# :0c
# *
# | head -1 > $SEMAPHORE
#

[scott]

No luck yet.

This line fails.
if [[ "$HOME/.mail-semaphore-flag" -lt "$HOME/.mail-semaphore" ]]

sh.sonic.net:nhdesign:/home/n/nhdesign 30 % newmail-semaphore
/home/n/nhdesign/bin/newmail-semaphore: line 20: [[: /home/n/nhdesign/.mail-semaphore-flag: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "/home/n/nhdesign/.mail-semaphore-flag")



Should this work from the command line or only from within cron?

sh.sonic.net:nhdesign:/home/n/nhdesign 31 % cat $HOME/.mail-semaphore > /usr/local/bin/tellme.pl
/usr/local/bin/tellme.pl: Read-only file system.




#!/bin/sh
#newmail-semaphore
#20180305


### check is mail-semaphore has a later timestamp than mail-semaphore-flag

if [[ "$HOME/.mail-semaphore-flag" -lt "$HOME/.mail-semaphore" ]]

then

### printed $HOME/.mail-semaphore to the screen.
# cat $HOME/.mail-semaphore > /dev/tty

cat $HOME/.mail-semaphore > /usr/local/bin/tellme.pl

touch -r $HOME/.mail-semaphore $HOME/.mail-semaphore-flag

fi

### from my .procmailrc
#
# SEMAPHORE=$HOME/.mail-semaphore
#
# :0c
# *
# | head -1 > $SEMAPHORE
#

Hi,

I'll have to take a closer look at your script (got a dental appt. coming up right now), but thought I'd mention that you'll want to use the "|" character for pipes, such as:

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cat $HOME/.mail-semaphore | /usr/local/bin/tellme.pl

Hope that helps?

-Scott