On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:28:35AM +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote: > On Thu, August 23, 2012 08:53, Joerg Dorchain wrote: > > I have a setup where my MTA delivers mail to an mbox file, which > > then is in turn exported via nfs read only to the client where > > mutt is running. Main purpose of this construction is viewing > > certain attachments. > > > > While all this works fine the first time mutt is started, after a > > while there is the situation that new mail arrives, however the > > mutt instance with the read only filesystem does not notice. > > > > Would it be possible to make mutt check for changes to the > > mailbox, even when this is located on a read-only filesystem? > > Try the check_mbox_size option.
Does not have any effects. The exported filesystem has relatime option set, which are correct according ls -lu. If just seems that mutt does not check for new mails at all when it considers a mailbox read only. Bye, Joerg
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