On Tue, 06 Jul 1999, Brendan Cully wrote:
> You probably have your mail on a filesystem that doesn't update the atime of
> your mailboxes. If you are using linux/ext2, keep your mail on a filesystem
> that is not mounted "noatime". You may also want to try recompiling mutt
> with the "buffy" [?] option, which I think tries to see whether the mailbox
> size has changed since last query instead of using access times.
well, i'll try the recompilation.
i'm a little surprised that mutt doesn't work with straight ext2
partitions "right out of the box." is there a special way i'm
to mount the ext2 partition that the mail is on? it's just mounted plain
rw right now.
thanks,
pete
>
> -Brendan
>
> PS sorry I'm using outlook express - I'm at work. OTOH, it does have nice
> IMAP support ;)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Pete Toscano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Wouter Hanegraaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, 06 July, 1999 10:54
> Subject: Re: Mutt detects new mail in old mailbox
>
> this happens all the time for me with just about all my mailboxes.
> it's very frustrating and about to cause me to abandon mutt (0.95.6i).
> can anyone shed some light on how to fix this problem?
>
> thanks,
> pete
>
> On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
>
> > When I browse through my mailboxes with c<Space>.., one of the boxes
> > that is supposed to have new mail doen't have new mail at all.
> > This happens very often. When I am in that folder, mutt even sometimes
> > explicitely tells me there's new mail in that box.
> > For all I know, this happens only with one very small mailbox.
> >
> > Anyone encountered this too?
> >
> > I'm using Mutt 0.95.3i (1999-02-12)
> >
> > Wouter...
> >
>
>
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