<<< Date Index >>>     <<< Thread Index >>>

Re: 'mailboxes' command misbehaving?



-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

>From: Khusro Jaleel <kerneljack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>Replying to myself here. I believe I have found the cause of the problem AND 
>fixed it. We shall see.
>
>After finding out about the 'noatime' flag on the partition, googling 'mutt 
>noatime' immediately gave
>results that were much more relevant to my problem. For example, from the Mutt 
>wiki:
>
>http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttFaq/Folder
>
>Do a search on that page for 'noatime' and you'll find the solution right 
>there! I had to rebuild mutt
>with --enable-buffy-size so that it looks at file sizes instead of atimes. It 
>says it might give suboptimal
>results, so we'll see how well it goes.
>
>At the moment it seems to be working quite well; those erroneous messages 
>about new mail are completely gone. 
>
>Many thanks for your help on this, Steve. I've learned how to install CentOS 
>SRPMS, modify the .spec file
>and rebuild it as a result :-) So I'm happy.


Good detective work.  Glad to have helped.

Steve

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (Darwin)

iEYEARECAAYFAko08+oACgkQX7YJI4BuyDTqTACfTzgw74nKzNHvL70WBCvImh9w
X8kAnirI3ATlMgssvqWY+we6Uur06evk
=uI0f
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----