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

[Marcos R. <ma...@al...>]

ok.. no big deal... but if I understand correctly... that could even 
happens with a "normal" setup... in which case I will warn my users to 
check the message before sending it as a forward! (it did happen to me... 
luckily enough I forwarded the wrong message to my wife :)

Thanks!
Marcos

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Jamie Cameron wrote:

> 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 in the links become out of date by the time you click on them.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
>
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