error message vanishes too quickly

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#3893

Author: zach@igd.fhg.de
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 00:00

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Just a little thing:

When I write mail with mutt like
    mutt somebody@somewhere

then mutt seems to print an error message after I've confirmed the
sending of the message with 'y'.
Problem is just: I can't read the err msg because it vanishes so quickly.
I suspect mutt does a \r instead of a \n, but I could well be wrong.

Gab.

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Re: error message vanishes too quickly

#3907

Author: garyjohn@spk.hp.
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 00:00

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Gabriel Zachmann (zach@igd.fhg.de) wrote:

> Problem is just: I can't read the err msg because it vanishes so quickly.
> I suspect mutt does a \r instead of a \n, but I could well be wrong.

I've had similar problems with Mutt's error messages flashing by too
quickly.  One solution is to use script(1).  This captures all the
characters going to a terminal in a file that can then be read to see
what the message was.  The procedure is:

1.  Execute 'script'.
2.  Execute 'mutt somebody@somewhere'.
3.  Try sending your message.
4.  Exit mutt.
5.  Type 'exit' to exit script.
6.  View the file 'typescript' to see what the error message was.

Gary

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