On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:22:53AM +0200, Christian Ebert wrote: > * 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. > I don't have any large mailboxes really, the biggest is my sentmail which has around 3000 messages, all others are at the most a few tens of messages. Why is mbox slow at reading large mailboxes though, it doesn't make much sense as it's only got to open one file as opposed to maildir opening at least one file per message.
...., thinks, I *believe* my problem with mutt not seeing new incoming mail is because of my delivery mechanism. I use a custom python script to deliver my mail to multiple mailboxes (split basically by mailing lists) and it's that which doesn't play nicely with mutt for some reason. -- Chris Green
