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Re: New mail not found - what to check?



On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Chris G wrote:
> 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.

I had the same problem, and I concluded that it was some issue with
the server marking the mail as old. So, I manually recreated the
Status header using formail, as I pass all my mail through procmail. I
know this is not a valid solution, but this worked around the issue
for me.

HTH.

Kumar
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Kumar Appaiah