Search & New Mail Features - any open issues?

[arcseldon]

@danchoi @notalex - Hi, thanks v.much for all the investment you guys made with vmail

Set it up today and am mostly delighted.

Unfortunately there are 2 issues I'd really like to resolve.

1). Search is broken for me - or at least partly. When I do ,s and then enter my search - and similarly when i first load vmail from command line startup, i see this appear in status window.

2). No new mails arrive when I hit u in normal mode. It tells me it is checking for new emails in status window. If I exit and come back in, new messages are fetched.

Particularly 1) is a pain as search. Any help much appreciated. Am technical, and happy to pair, share a screen, offer further information regarding versions etc etc to iron out the issues. Am slightly anxious as it appears vmail hasn't had so much ongoing maintenance of late. If you respond to this issue, then as i say happy to invest time in solving these problems. Thank you!

[notalex]

I apologize for the delay. I will be looking into this issue this week. Thanks for reporting it.

[notalex]

The search failure might not be related to Vmail. The function strip_on_save does not exist within the vmail codebase. The error might be coming from the vim-stripper plugin that I see in your dotfiles. This could be an error that occurs in conjuction with vmail. You could try disabling this plugin and check the search functionality to confirm.

Vmail generates logs in a file called vmail.log found inside ~/.vmail/**.

If you tail the vmail.log contents while performing the search, the information will help us further debug this.

[arcseldon]

@notalex - thanks alot, appreciate the reply. Will try to find time to return to this, and do some debugging.

[notalex]

For the new email issue u, please try the just released v2.9.9. Others have reported the same issue on OSx and this new patch seems to fix it for them.

[notalex]

If you are using OSx, this hack might help: https://github.com/danchoi/vmail/wiki/Simple-Auto-Update-Without-VIM-Clientserver

[notalex]

@arcseldon, may I close this ticket?