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Re: Not seeing new mail at all - BSD system



On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 02:37:53PM +0000, cl@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 02:11:48PM +0000, cl@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I am migrating my main mail reading activity from a Linux system (this
> > one) to a BSD one.
> > However mutt is not telling me at all when new mail arrives.  Is there
> > anything odd/special about BSD systems regarding mutt being able to
> > see new mail?

Did you change $spoolfile to point to the new mailbox location?

Other than that, nothing special.  Are your mailboxes located on an NFS
share, or something else that could muck with timestamps?

> Further to this, when I navigate to the directory where the new mail
> has arrived and open the mbox file then mutt *does* flag the new mail
> as new.

Did you call "mailboxes" with all the new mailbox paths?
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