Re: Not always seeing new mail in mailboxes
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 07:53:43PM +0200, Michael Tatge wrote:
> * On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 cl@xxxxxxxx (cl@xxxxxxxx) muttered:
> > For some reason mutt is not now seeing new mail in all the mailboxes I
> > have listed in the mailboxes command.
>
> Is this mbox? If everything else fails you might want to switch to
> maildir.
>
Yes, it is mbox, but I have "changed to maildir" so many times and
then changd back becuase the disadvantages outweigh the advantages
that I don't really want to do it yet again.
> > What sort of things are likely to cause this problem?
>
> Is the fs mounted noatime? Is mutt compiled with --enable-buffy-size
>
It looks to me like it's a local file system. The /home file system
is:-
/dev/hda7 on /home type reiserfs (rw)
> > on the new system it's done with a perl script using Mail::Audit.
>
> Does it change atime or mtime?
>
Well it seems to change mtime as it should.
I've removed "set save_empty=no" from my muttrc and that seems to be
improving things. It seemed to me that when a new mailbox was created
the atime and mtime were the same and mutt regarded that as 'not new
mail'. It worked on the old system though.
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Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx)