* Chris G on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 09:31:26 +0100 > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 09:28:48AM +0100, Chris G wrote: >>> 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. >> > I'm doing a big change to my mail system at the moment so I may well > try check_mbox_size and see if it works for me.
Strange. It is supposed to work on Linux out of the box. Maildir vs. mbox: I found that Maildir with header_cache is way faster than mbox in opening large mailboxes, even though I'm on a Mac where HFS+ is supposedly not good at handling a lot of small files. YMMV. c -- Die Wolke Wolfgang Eine Kindergeschichte mit Bildern. Von Michael Weber. Das Buch -->> http://www.blacktrash.org/baustellen/index.html#wolkewolfgang Online -->> http://www.blacktrash.org/wolkewolfgang/
