[Pkg-mutt-maintainers] Bug#884858: mutt: q and $ fail with: rename: No such file or directory (errno = 2)

[Adam Borowski]

> Sometimes, quite rarely, operations that would commit operations on a
> directory (such as q or $) fail with:
>     rename: No such file or directory (errno = 2)
> with no way to save changes.  This results in doubled mails that were moved
> elsewhere, restoration of deleted mails and similar loss of status updates.

A workaround for when there's enough state that its loss would be painful:
if I send myself a mail, such a stuck mutt will allow deletion of this new
dummy mail, and work normally then.


Meow!
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