On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 05:40:43PM -0400, David T-G wrote:
> ...and then Anthony Liu said...
[snip]
> %
> % I have a few questions below:
> %
> % 1) I have
> % set folder_format="%N %30s %f"
> % but I can't see the "N" indicator in the folder index even though
> % some of the mailboxes has new mail (it is always blank). Why?
>
> If your folder_format is correct, then you probably have the common
> problem of some other utility (biff, your shell, or anything else
> that checks for new mail) updating the access time of the mailbox,
> which is the only way that mutt checks to see that new mail has
> arrived (mod time later than acc time). The only solution is to
> figure out what's doing it and make it stop.
I have the same problem Anthony describes. There is clearly new mail
(checked via ls -l ; ls -lc ; ls -lu), but mutt is not picking up on
it for some reason.
Version is Mutt 1.2.5i (2000-07-28)
folder_format="%2C %t %N %F %2l %-8.8u %-8.8g %8s %d %f" (the default)
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- Bruce
