Re: Strange New mail problem
On 10Apr2008 09:46, Dave Wood <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| Solved:
| Well it seemed to be down to mounting fs with noatime
This is because for a UNIX mail folder (flat file) the easy check for
newness is mtime > atime (i.e. mail has been written since the last
read of the file). If the atime never updates...
Other approaches to watching this can involve watching the mtime and the
file size, but the first time mutt sees the file this isn't enough
information.
If you're on Linux, there are some new mount options that get you most
of the performance benefit of noatime without losing the atime. See
"man 8 mount" and look for "relatime".
Cheers,
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