Re: New mail not found - what to check?
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:15:42PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
> I have just moved my mail to a new system, it's being delivered by
> exim4 on a new ubuntu 8.10 installation.
>
> For some reason mutt isn't seeing new mail arriving. It is arriving
> OK and the flags (i.e. the 'N' against new messages) are OK but I'm
> not being notified in the status line and I'm not able to 'c' to
> mailboxes where new mail has arrived.
>
> I'm using mbox format (which I know is more likely to have this issue)
> but I want to stay with mbox if I possibly can.
>
> It's my own system and I (obviously) have full access to the exim4
> configuration, the file system configuration, etc. The incoming mail
> is being stored on a local file system so there are no nfs issues or
> anything like that as far as I know.
>
> What should I be looking at to try and sort this out?
>
Well something funny is going on, the mail *should* be seen as new
shouldn't it? :-
chris$ ls -lc --full-time
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 4818 2008-12-19 13:04:01.000000000 +0000 freewant
-rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 7234 2008-12-19 13:04:50.000000000 +0000 ixion
chris$ ls -lu --full-time
total 20
-rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 4818 2008-12-19 13:04:01.000000000 +0000 freewant
-rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 7234 2008-12-19 13:04:50.000000000 +0000 ixion
But mutt isn't seeing any new mail.
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Chris Green