On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:16:32PM +0200, Christian Ebert wrote: > * 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. > When I moved from mutt 1.4 to 1.5 (quite a while ago) I found that new mail detection in mbox stopped working.
I never worked out why and eventually gave up and moved to maildir for my incoming mailboxes but I'd move back to mbox immediately if I know how to fix the new mail issue. ... oh, this is on an Ubuntu Linux system. -- Chris Green
