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| author |   Matthew Smith <matthew@gentoo.org> | 2022-06-26 09:25:30 +0100 |
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| committer | Matthew Smith <matthew@gentoo.org> | 2022-07-01 08:54:15 +0100 |
| commit | bc0bf470ba2e27748ef266e7bd0e97bebbbd0c23 (patch) | |
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2022-06-26-mu-corruption: new entry
Add a news item explaining a maildir corruption bug in the mu/mu4e
mail reader.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Smith <matthew@gentoo.org>
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diff --git a/2022-06-26-mu-corruption/2022-06-06-mu-corruption.en.txt b/2022-06-26-mu-corruption/2022-06-06-mu-corruption.en.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2108c99 --- /dev/null +++ b/2022-06-26-mu-corruption/2022-06-06-mu-corruption.en.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +Title: Mu 1.7.23 Causing Maildir Corruption +Author: Matthew Smith <matthew@gentoo.org> +Posted: 2022-06-26 +Revision: 1 +News-Item-Format: 2.0 +Display-If-Installed: net-mail/mu-1.7.23 + +Development versions of mu between 1.7.18 and 1.7.25 have a bug causing +mail file names to sometimes get mangled after moving messages between +directories. Symptoms include unread messages never being marked as +read. + +Affected messages have the ':2,' flag appended multiple times. Using the +following commands, users can remove the extra flags. + + find ~/Maildir -name '*:2,*:*' | + sed "s/\(\([^:]*\)\(:2,\)\{1,\}\(:2,.*$\)\)/mv '\0' '\2\4'/" \ + > rename.sh + # review rename.sh. empty file indicates that you are unaffected + sh rename.sh + +Upstream issue: https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/2268 |