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not detecting new mail in MailDir format?



On 25Apr2009 07:09, I wrote in <20090424210913.GA24788@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
| On 24Apr2009 09:11, Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| | On Friday, April 24 at 03:33 PM, quoth Cameron Simpson:
| | > I find mutt doesn't notice new email in maildirs when I press '$'. 
| | > Is there a common misconfiguration I might have? 
| | 
| | Hmmm, not that I'm aware of. Maildir should Just Work (all you need to 
| | do to detect new messages is check the contents of mailboxname/new/).
| 
| Ok, thanks. I'll do some stracing and start a new thread if I learn
| anything.

Well, if I've got my "+me" folder open and press '$', an strace shows
only this (all system calls with the string "/me" in them):

  [pid 28316] stat("/home/cameron/mail/me", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, 
st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
  [pid 28316] stat("/home/cameron/mail/me", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, 
st_size=4096, ...}) = 0

It makes no attempt to stat me/new or me/cur, or to read them.

"mutt -v" output:

  [/home/cameron]janus*> ~/bin-local/mutt -v
  Mutt 1.5.18 (2008-05-17)
  Copyright (C) 1996-2008 Michael R. Elkins and others.
  Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
  Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
  under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.

  System: Linux 2.6.23-gentoo-r9adaptec+hiddev (x86_64)
  ncurses: ncurses 5.6.20061217 (compiled with 5.6)
  libidn: 1.5 (compiled with 1.5)
  hcache backend: GDBM version 1.8.3. 10/15/2002 (built Apr 17 2007
  01:56:24)
  Compile options:
  -DOMAIN
  -DEBUG
  -HOMESPOOL  +USE_SETGID  +USE_DOTLOCK  +DL_STANDALONE  
  +USE_FCNTL  -USE_FLOCK   
  +USE_POP  +USE_IMAP  +USE_SMTP  -USE_GSS  +USE_SSL_OPENSSL
  -USE_SSL_GNUTLS  -USE_SASL  +HAVE_GETADDRINFO  
  +HAVE_REGCOMP  -USE_GNU_REGEX  
  +HAVE_COLOR  +HAVE_START_COLOR  +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD  +HAVE_BKGDSET  
  +HAVE_CURS_SET  +HAVE_META  +HAVE_RESIZETERM  
  +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP  +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME
  +CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME  
  +EXACT_ADDRESS  -SUN_ATTACHMENT  
  +ENABLE_NLS  -LOCALES_HACK  +HAVE_WC_FUNCS  +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
  +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR  
  +HAVE_ICONV  -ICONV_NONTRANS  +HAVE_LIBIDN  +HAVE_GETSID  +USE_HCACHE  
  -ISPELL
  SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
  MAILPATH="/var/mail"
  PKGDATADIR="/opt/mutt-1.5.18-gentoo-amd64/share/mutt"
  SYSCONFDIR="/opt/mutt-1.5.18-gentoo-amd64/etc"
  EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
  -MIXMASTER
  To contact the developers, please mail to <mutt-dev@xxxxxxxx>.
  To report a bug, please visit http://bugs.mutt.org/.

My muttrc mentions +me here:

  mailboxes +me +sh +TODO +REREAD

and mentions "maildir" here:

  set maildir_header_cache_verify=no
  set mbox_type=Maildir

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743
http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/

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