Re: 1.5.10 -> 1.5.19 issue

[Ken Weingold <hazmat@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun  3, 2009, Brendan Cully wrote:
> On Wednesday, 03 June 2009 at 10:44, Ken Weingold wrote:
> > I uploaded my mutt from 1.5.10 to 1.5.19 and find that 1.5.19 is not
> > notifying me of any new mail in anything but my spool folder.  No
> > problems going back to 1.5.10.  Any ideas why this would be?
> 
> My first guess is you should set $check_mbox_size, which was a
> compile-time-only option back in 1.5.10. Your home directory is
> probably mounted noatime.

That did it, thanks!  When searching for this setting I saw that it
replaced --enable-buffy-size in 1.5.15, and that is indeed what I used
to use.

> The better fix might be to mount your filesystems with relatime
> instead of noatime.

I can't do that, since I am just a user on this system.  panix.com.

Thanks again!


-Ken