Re: Mailbox cycling
On Oct 4, Sebastian Waschik <sebastian.waschik@xxxxxx> wrote:
> I have this problem while using hdparam (via laptop-mode-tools) to turn
> off my harddisc while not using it. Then mutt toggle between two
> mbox-mailboxes (with key "c"). A work around here is to do manually
> "touch <mailboxname>". After this mutt know there is no new mail in
> <mailboxname> and offer next mailbox with new mail.
Or more precisely, "touch -a folder" just to change the folder's access
time. You are describing the "noatime problem" for mutt's new mail
reporting. I found the link below quite useful when I searched for a
workaround as my ISP:s server (where I read mu mail) didn't update
access times. As I googled around I found that the same seems to be the
case for laptops in some energy saving modes.
http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~iam23/compnotes/noatime_mutt.html