Re: [webmin-l] read mail module bug?

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 11/Mar/2006 22:17 Marcos Rubinstein wrote ..
> at least in my crazy setup ;)
> 
> 1.- procmail delivers mail to /var/spool/mail/myname
> 2.- I have a shell running pine most of the time... pine moves the mail
> from /var/spool/mail/myname to /home/myname/mail/mbox
> 3.- if *while pine is running* I decide to read mail from the web, and
> change to folder mbox, the folowing has hapened:
> 
> 3.1- usermin readmail for mbox shows messages 1 to 20 of NN
> 3.2.- I click in message number 1
> 3.3.- a message different that the one that I expected shows up!
> 
> and.. if at that time I check pine.. I can see that pine has move a new
> message to mbox! (the message that I'm looking in 3.3)
> 
> not a big deal.. and I suposse only happens in my case... but could it
> hapens if I'm reading only from webmail (no pine opened in another shell),
> and is the Inbox???... or when reading Inbox the readmail module "knows"
> to check in disparities between message numbers and new messages???...

Hi Marcos,
This is indeed a bug in Usermin - sometimes if a new message arrives or the
mail file is modified since the mail list is displayed, the message indexes
in the links become out of date by the time you click on them. I am working
on a solution though :)

 - Jamie