On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 12:36:46PM -0500, David DeSimone wrote:
> Mikko Hänninen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I use Maildir over NFS. I find myself frequently in a situation where
> > I see in my incoming mail log that I've gotten mail in a particular
> > folder while I'm reading it, but Mutt doesn't seem to notice it. It
> > certainly takes much longer than the 5 seconds that the $mail_check
> > value would indicate, assuming I understood its meaning correctly...
> > I wonder if this could possibly be some sort of NFS caching issue or
> > something?
>
> That would be quite unfortunate, as NFS is one of the main reasons to
> prefer maildir over other mailbox formats. Mutt does, though, appear to
> pay attention to the modified time on the directory, as an optimization
> for checking for new messages. So it looks like that could well be the
> issue. Try playing around with storing files in a directory from one
> NFS client, then examining the modified time of the directory from
> another client.
Ugh. Hmm. it would seem NFS may be to blame. New mail was sent at 11:57,
and presumably arrived within a few minutes. As can be seen, the "tmp"
directory was modified at 11:58, but the "new" dir hasn't. Presumably,
something might be wanted. (Using mutt-1.1.14)
Fingers might be pointed at procmail (3.14), as I've checked (a) the
machine I'm using, (b) the machine where the disk physically lives and (c)
the machine doing the mail, and they all agree on the times coming out of
stat.
fort-kent[0-101]% stat *
File: "cur"
Size: 1536 Filetype: Directory
Mode: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 398/benjamin) Gid: ( 14/ grad)
Device: 0,13 Inode: 202758 Links: 2
Access: Mon May 8 12:21:58 2000(00000.00:07:06)
Modify: Mon May 8 10:56:33 2000(00000.01:32:31)
Change: Mon May 8 10:56:33 2000(00000.01:32:31)
File: "new"
Size: 512 Filetype: Directory
Mode: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 398/benjamin) Gid: ( 14/ grad)
Device: 0,13 Inode: 318215 Links: 2
Access: Mon May 8 12:27:51 2000(00000.00:01:13)
Modify: Mon May 8 10:18:35 2000(00000.02:10:29)
Change: Mon May 8 12:29:02 2000(00000.00:00:02)
File: "tmp"
Size: 512 Filetype: Directory
Mode: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 398/benjamin) Gid: ( 14/ grad)
Device: 0,13 Inode: 202782 Links: 2
Access: Mon May 8 02:58:16 2000(00000.09:30:48)
Modify: Mon May 8 11:58:37 2000(00000.00:30:27)
Change: Mon May 8 11:58:37 2000(00000.00:30:27)
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Benjamin Korvemaker
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