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Re: mutt crashes



Joachim Fahnenmüller:
> 
> I have a fresh install of debian testing.
> Mutt crashes every time I try to write a new message (or reply to one) 
> at the moment when it should open the editor. No error message, it just 
> freezes.

I have this behaviour, when my signature generator (signify) is not yet
started. mutt tries to read the signature from ~/.signature and that
file is a fifo that signify writes to. When I write a new mail, vim is
spawned and hangs when trying to read the empty fifo.

J.
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