[16973] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.3.13: dist
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Tue Jul 27 13:11:31 1999
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:11:23 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199907271711.NAA142936@antharia.mit.edu>
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
To: "Naomi B. Schmidt" <nschmidt@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199907261235.IAA26778@mozart.mit.edu>
> On occasion (two or three times), I think since I took the new
> release as part of the 'early' cluster, the wrong message gets
> redistributed - one that is really ancient, from a few months
> ago, and no longer in my inbox.
I assume you mean a message that is in another folder?
> If a do a rescan of my inbox and
> then use dist once again, the correct message does get sent.
> (I use xmh to read my email.)
It sounds like xmh isn't always updating mh's internal pointers about
what folder it's looking at. If you say "dist +inbox" instead of just
"dist", it ought to work.
xmh is a pretty old piece of software, and isn't being maintained by
anyone any more. You might want to look at "exmh" in the sipb locker
(also available in the dash menu), which is a newer version that has
more features, like MIME support. (It also has a "Redistribute"
command under the "More..." menu, which would let you do a "dist" of
the message you're looking at without having to use the command line.)
-- Dan
