Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Disclaimer : I do not use mutt nor any SSD yet. > > Joel Roth a écrit : > > > > I have debian installed on a single SSD partition, > > with ordinary desktop use. > > > > When I set the strictatime option, mutt accurately shows new > > mails arriving. (I'm using mbox format.) > > Doesn't mutt work with relatime, which is the current kernel default ? > The mount(8) man page states that it should.
With mbox and relatime, I get only one notification of new mail in a folder. If I quit mutt without reading and start again, the indication now longer shows up. I have filtering in to lots of folders, and have missed seeing mail that way. > > Is this setting going to wear out my SSD? > > Yes, faster that relatime because of the extra writes. -- Joel Roth