On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 10:32:24AM +0000, Chris G wrote: > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 11:21:17AM +0100, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > Hi Chris! > > > > On Thu, 06 Dec 2007, Chris G wrote: > > > > > It all works pretty much the same (no change of home directory so my > > > muttrc is the same one) except that every time I send a mail message > > > mutt tells me there's new mail in my sentmail folder - true enough but > > > not very helpful! It didn't do that on the BSD system. > > > > > > What do I need to do to fix this - or what can I do to diagnose what's > > > going on? > > > > Have you specified your sentmail folder as mailbox in your .muttrc? > > > I don't *think* so, and anyway why would it change on the change of > OS, the muttrc is the same file - still works on the old FreeBSD > system. > > ..... but, yes, you're right, I have :- > > set record=~/Mail/sentmail > ... > ... > ... > mailboxes ~/Mail/inbox `echo ~/Mail/lists/*` `echo ~/Mail/*` `echo > ~/Mail/spam/*` > > > ... but why don't I see 'new mail' in ~/Mail/sentmail on the FreeBSD > system? > I have just realised (I think) why it has changed. The sentmail folder is in mbox format and the file system is mounted with the noatime flag so mutt can't *reliably* detect new mail. It would appear that on FreeBSD it reliably *can't* detect new mail but, for some reason, on the more modern Linux system it *can* detect new mail in that folder.
-- Chris Green
