On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 09:21:39PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> I have now got my new server running and I'm testing out mutt with
> mbox mail storage and with atime set.
>
> This message is really just a test message to myself, sorry for the
> noise.
>
> I will however report if it all works or not.
>
..., and it *doesn't* work. :-(
I now have two nearly identical Ubuntu 10.04 servers running. I'm
delivering mail by SMTP to both of them by using the forwarding at my
hosting site so both of my servers receive identical mail by SMTP.
Both servers run postfix and that delivers mail to 'me' (user chris),
there is a .forward file that passes the mail on to a python script
that delivers the mail to the appropriate mailbox - maildir on one
system and mbox on the other.
My previous mail to the list has been delivered back to both systems
and has arrived in the mailbox ~/Mail/Li/mutt in both cases. On the
maildir system mutt sees the new mail and I can 'c' to the mailbox and
see the mail. On the mbox system mutt doesn't see the mail as new and
I can't use 'c' to get to it. However if I navigate to the mutt
mailbox on the mbox system the message is marked as new with an 'N' by
it.
I have the following in muttrc:-
mailboxes /var/mail/chris ~/Mail/In/inbox `echo ~/Mail/Li/*` `echo
~/Mail/In/*`
So I need to reread my muttrc file to see new mailboxes in Li or In
but I have done that and mutt *still* doesn't see new mail on the mbox
system.
I'm confused, what is going on, surely mutt should recognise a *new*
file as one that has new mail in it.
--
Chris Green
