Re: I DON'T have new mail
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 07:46:16PM +0000, A. S. Budden wrote:
> Thus spake A. S. Budden:
> > Thus spake Charlie Allom:
> > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:50:03AM +0000, A. S. Budden wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I've just installed mandrake 9.2, transferred my home directory
> > > > (previously RH9) across and recompiled mutt-1.4.1i-nntp3. Since doing
> > > > this, every time I change mailbox (between two that are listed as
> > > > mailboxes in muttrc), mutt tells me that the one I just came out of has
> > > > new mail. It hasn't.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Just so you don't feel like this slipped into oblivion - I also have
> > > this. mutt 1.5.4 and IMAP (dovecot)
> > >
> >
> > The problem on my computer is just with local mailboxes. Also, I never
> > had this problem when the computer had RH9 installed. It was built from
> > the same source package as well (I didn't even redownload it).
> >
>
> Finally found the solution to this one. Thought I'd post in case anyone
> else is still interested. It's to do with the way Mutt checks for new
> mail. Mutt compares the access time with the modification time and if
> the latter is later, there must be new mail.
>
> Unfortunately, the default on Mandrake with ext3 is to not use atimes.
> Edit /etc/fstab and remove "noatime" from the filesystem with your mail
> folders on and Bob's your uncle, problem gone (after a reboot).
>
> I'd guess there is a similar solution for Mac OS X. I _think_ there's a
> compilation option that makes Mutt check for new mail a different way
> too.
>
> Hope that helps someone,
>
> Al
would that likely be:
--enable-buffy-size Use file size attribute instead of access time
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bryan
glad to see this thread again