On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:52:47AM -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 02:37:53PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 02:11:48PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I am migrating my main mail reading activity from a Linux system (this > > > one) to a BSD one. > > > > > > So I have copied across my muttrc file and a few other rlated bits and > > > pieces and I'm testing mutt on the new (to me) system. > > > > > > Mail is arriving as expected and getting delivered (by the same Perl > > > script as I was using on the Linux system) to various mailing list > > > mailboxes etc. > > > > > > However mutt is not telling me at all when new mail arrives. Is there > > > anything odd/special about BSD systems regarding mutt being able to > > > see new mail? > > > > > Further to this, when I navigate to the directory where the new mail > > has arrived and open the mbox file then mutt *does* flag the new mail > > as new. > > I'm using the prebuilt mutt packages on OpenBSD and it works fine. I'm > using procmail for local delivery, though. > > The first thing to look at is the times on your mbox files before and > after mail is delivered and make sure they are updated and that the > times are correct. > You're right, there's something odd there, the delivery mechanism seems to be a bit awry as the modification and last access times are always identical. I'll have to look into why that is, thank you.
-- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
