Re: How to let mutt always mark mbox as new if it contains new
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 07:04:39AM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-05-12, Rocco Rutte <pdmef@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > * Wu, Yue wrote:
> >
> > > Thank you, 'check_mbox_size' does the trick.
> >
> > Hmm, how is the partition with the mboxes mounted? This option only
> > exists for setups where access/modification time cannot be reliably used
> > to detect new mail. Filesystems can be mounted to not update atime as
> > that causes disk updates but provides little to no benefit for most
> > applications so many people turn atime updates off.
>
> In my case, at work, almost everything except /tmp is NFS-mounted,
> including $MAIL and $HOME. I've been using +BUFFY_SIZE and now
> 'check_mbox_size' for so long that I don't remember exactly the
> problem I was having without it, except that notifications of new
> mail and/or mailbox statuses were not working correctly.
>
> At home, I'm using Cygwin's mutt package and it just happens to have
> +BUFFY_SIZE configured.
Just a comment. I compiled 1.5.18 "out of the box" on Cygwin and I do not have
that set. I am not sure what it does, but would it be best set in the
cygwin version.
Brian.
> Regards,
> Gary
>
>
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