Anyone here use mutt? (was: Mutt not showing IMAP mailbox counts)

[Bill Moseley]

Can anyone using mutt (and imaps) confirm this behavior below?

    $ mutt -y

to show mailboxes results in all zero counts displayed.

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 12:50:09PM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> Anyone using Mutt and IMAPs?  Since upgrading to Gutsy the mailbox
> counts display ( c?<tab> ) always shows zero counts.
> 
> Can anyone confirm this?  I'm kind of stuck now trying to resolve the
> problem.
> 
> There's this in the changelog:
> 
> http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.15+20070412-1ubuntu1/changelog
> 
>     mutt (1.5.15+20070412-1ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low
> 
>       * Backport patch from Debian to fix wrong unread count on imap folders.
>         Thanks to Adeodato Simó.
> 
> Although I'm not sure it applies to this specific problem.
> 
> I built mutt from mutt.org and also don't see the counts.  So,
> seems to be problem in upstream.
> 
> Now, I built mutt from svn and the counts *do* show up, but only once
> -- they then revert back to zeros.  I have to exit mutt and restart
> before the counts come back (and again are only shown one time).
> 
> 
> Debian's sid source package has this in its changelog:
> 
>     mutt (1.5.16-3) unstable; urgency=medium
> 
>       * Fix the maildir-mtime patch change in 1.5.14+cvs20070403-1 that broke
>         new mail message count in IMAP folders. (Closes: #421468, #428734, #433275)
> 
> 
> I downloaded that Debian Sid source on a Sid machine (using apt-get
> source to be sure to apply all the patches) and then copied the
> source to the Gusty machine and built.  But, that also failed to show
> any counts.  I just built with:
> 
>     ./configure --enable-imap --with-ssl --prefix=$HOME/mutt
> 
> instead of building a .deb, but I believe that all the patches should
> be applied.
> 
> 
> Any ideas what to try next?  I find it odd that the debian package
> didn't resolve the issue.
> 
> 
> 
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> Bill Moseley
> moseley at hank.org
> 
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