Re: enable-buffy-size
On 2004-02-06, Ken Weingold <bofh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am finding very often at my shell account that mutt is not telling
> me about new mail, though I can see in mutt -y that some mailboxes
> have in fact been changes, therefore having new mail, since I had last
> checked. Though these mailboxes are not marked with an N, there is in
> fact new mail when I go into them. There is a lot of use of NFS here,
> which has been suggested as the source of the problem. Would
> rebuilding mutt with --enable-buffy-size in fact solve this problem?
> It's really irritating.
We use a lot of NFS here, too--$HOME is NFS-mounted, $MAIL is
NFS-mounted--I think the only things not NFS-mounted to this machine
are /tmp and /dev. I also had problems with new-mail detection
until I rebuilt mutt with --enable-buffy-size and I haven't had any
problems since. I don't know for a fact that it will solve your
problem, but it seems likely that it will and seems worth a try.
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
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