Re: New mail not found - what to check?
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 04:48:46PM +0000, Michael Kjorling wrote:
> On 19 Dec 2008 12:15 +0000, by cl@xxxxxxxx (Chris G):
> > 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 have had the problem that mutt wouldn't detect new mail in mbox
> spools, which can be solved by setting the noatime on the file system
> in question in /etc/fstab. Or, as I did, switch to a different mail
> spool format - I went with maildir but mh should work as well. The
> third option is to ensure that all programs accessing the files reset
> the access time if appropriate - not all software supports that.
>
> HOWEVER, I have never had any problem with entering those mailboxes.
> What is the output of 'stat' when executed with such a mailbox file as
> parameter? What error message does mutt give when you attempt to
> change to such a mailbox?
>
See above in this thread, you have pointed at the right issue, the
mtime and atime appear to both be set.
It shouldn't be the noatime issue, these are all local filesystems.
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Chris Green