[7038] in SIPB bug reports
Re: exmh bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Tue Oct 20 04:00:46 1998
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 04:00:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
To: Hector D Martell <hmartell@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199810192359.TAA21301@scarpa.mit.edu>
On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Hector D Martell wrote:
> Hi, for some reason I am not able to read
> or even list the first 16 messages in my
> inbox on either exmh or xmh
> The messages appear when I scan but not
> in either program.
Because running "scan" can sometimes be slow, exmh tries to speed
things up by only doing a full scan on request. It caches the
results of the last full scan, and updates that cached copy as
you perform actions on your mail. Since exmh is basically
relying on memory to remember what part of your mail scan looks
like, exmh can get confused if the true contents of your mail
folder changes without exmh's knowledge.
You can refresh exmh's memory by explicitly instructing it to
rescan your folder. From the scan list's "More.." menu, run the
command "Rescan folder".
(Xmh has this same problem, except that it happens more often,
and is harder to fix.)
-Jacob Morzinski
