* Michael Ludwig on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 22:27:06 +0200 > Yesterday I built Mutt 1.5 on Cygwin, which worked fine; and today I > discovered the Cygwin maintainers have done so as well. So Cygwin 1.7 > now has Mutt 1.5. > > One problem that comes with the update is Mutt's notion of what is new > mail and what is read mail. In 1.4, it worked as it should: mailboxes > containing new mail were flagged, and reading it unset the flag. Now in > 1.5, every mailbox is flagged as containing new mail each time I start > Mutt. > > When building Mutt 1.5, I noticed that the --enable-buffy-size configure > script flag has disappeared. > > When building 1.4, it seemed to me that this flag is needed to make mutt > remember having read new mail in a box so it isn't flagged as new any > more. > > Is that also the cause of the now dysfunctional new mail detection in > 1.5, broken at least in my configuration and on Cygwin? > > How can new mail detection be repaired for 1.5?
I'm using Maildir, but set check_mbox_size=yes looks like a good candidate. Look in man(5) muttrc whether it is available for your version. c -- theatre - books - texts - movies Black Trash Productions at home: http://www.blacktrash.org/ Black Trash Productions on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/blacktrashproductions
