Re: Not seeing new mail at all - BSD system
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:52:47AM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 02:37:53PM +0000, cl@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 02:11:48PM +0000, cl@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > I am migrating my main mail reading activity from a Linux system (this
> > > one) to a BSD one.
> > >
> > > So I have copied across my muttrc file and a few other rlated bits and
> > > pieces and I'm testing mutt on the new (to me) system.
> > >
> > > Mail is arriving as expected and getting delivered (by the same Perl
> > > script as I was using on the Linux system) to various mailing list
> > > mailboxes etc.
> > >
> > > However mutt is not telling me at all when new mail arrives. Is there
> > > anything odd/special about BSD systems regarding mutt being able to
> > > see new mail?
> > >
> > Further to this, when I navigate to the directory where the new mail
> > has arrived and open the mbox file then mutt *does* flag the new mail
> > as new.
>
> I'm using the prebuilt mutt packages on OpenBSD and it works fine. I'm
> using procmail for local delivery, though.
>
> The first thing to look at is the times on your mbox files before and
> after mail is delivered and make sure they are updated and that the
> times are correct.
>
You're right, there's something odd there, the delivery mechanism
seems to be a bit awry as the modification and last access times are
always identical. I'll have to look into why that is, thank you.
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Chris Green (chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx)