On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:34:03PM +0100, Heinrich Langos wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 08:07:58PM +0000, Dave Pearson wrote:
>
> > It would appear that we have different definitions of "accessed" and
> > "modified". My copy of mutt shows me when an mbox has been modified, not
> > when it has been accessed.
>
> do me a favor and check your "mutt -v" output. if it says
> "+BUFFY_SIZE" than your mutt is not just checking access times but
> much more than that. if it says "-BUFFY_SIZE" (like mine did) and
> after grep-ing your mailbox still shows an "N", i don't get it.
I don't use the buffy feature. Neither have I ever said that an external
access of a given mailbox won't cause mutt to fail to show the "N". I keep
saying that it works as documented.
> BTW: is your mutt running 24/7 or do you start it anew in the morning like
> i do... ( and several times a day whenever i've found a new feature in
> mutt that i would like to try out ? :) )
24/7. I also run other instances of mutt on an ad-hoc basis.
> it's not only me who wants mutt to behave that way, i guess. if it was not
> the intention to make mutt detect new mail it would say "... the main menu
> status bar displays how any of these folders have been modified since they
> where accessed by some programm." ;-)
I agree that this can be viewed as a documentation problem.
> > The problem with such a scan is that it could take ages. I've got a lot of
> > mailboxes, some of which can be huge.
>
> it only scans mailboxes that are marked as incoming mailboxes.
That's why I said "mailboxes".
> so it would do the same thing it does, when opening that mbox. only to all
> of them at once... ok ok .. that would be some overhead.
That could and would be a *lot* of overhead.
> but it will not scan all your mailboxes. especially not those archive like
> things where you keep several years of the kernel developers list or
> bugtraq :-)
I said "mailboxes", not archives.
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