On Jun 23, 2010 at 10:34 PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
So the access time is the same as the modified time and mutt doesn't see it as having new mail. Since I rarely leave any mail in these mbox files (I save mail I want to keep elsewhere) and I have save_empty=no much of my new mail is in fact a completely new mailbox. Maybe this is the problem I have seen in the past.
I'm probably misunderstanding something, but I don't think mutt checks mailboxes it doesn't know about. If you start up, your "mailboxes `echo ~/Mail/Li/*` command only picks up the boxes that exist at the time of startup. If a new mailbox is created while running, mutt doesn't know to check it. Maybe if you hardcoded in your mailboxes command. At least, this is the way it works over here with a maildir setup.
The difference in behavior you might be seeing is that an empty maildir still exists as a folder with the cur, tmp, and new subfolders. Does an empty mbox file exist as a zero-length file? Or is the file removed? If the former, ignore whatever I said above. Feel free to ignore what I said anyway, since I'm not sure I grokked your problem.
Tim
