From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: Robby Message-ID: <%p%Ea.12506$m_2.89463013@news-text.cableinet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [9fans] problem with upas/fs and echo open >/mail/fs/ctl Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:42:03 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c96091b6-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Hi, I am finding a bit oddness with upas/fs and echoing 'open' into /mail/fs/ctl. I have a couple of mailboxes that I manage very nicely by starting upas/fs without any -f option, and then to open a particular mailbox I echo 'open /imap/imap.myisp.server/mysillycomplicatedboxname mybox' >/mail/fs/ctl After this I can read my email in acme with 'Mail mybox'. Now I am finding that when my outside mailbox is empty, echo'ing the open creates the right directory in /mail/fs but doesn't actually populate it with anything. You can see it, but you can't cd into it. And Mail then also fails, obviously. I can revive everything by sending a message to the box, suddenly the directory structure becomes normal again. And once you've reached that stage, it remains fine. It only ever happens on the initial open. I thought I'd ask here before trawling into code (my first foray), whether this was expected behaviour or not? I'll have a dig around the sources when I find a bit of spare time. Robby -- The only way to gain time is to slow down.