On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:28:50PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2012-11-15, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > El día Thursday, November 15, 2012 a las 07:43:13PM +0000, Chris Green > > escribió: > > > > > My incoming mailboxes (as specified to mutt) get periodically backed up > > > and thus the 'accessed' time gets updated and mutt doesn't see them as > > > containing new mail. > > > > > > However when mutt opens these mailboxes it *does* recognise that they > > > have new mail in them and flags the new mail with an 'N'. > > > > > > Is there any way I can ask mutt to actually scan through all the > > > mailboxes rather than just look at the file times to see if there is new > > > mail in them? > > > > Or use a backup method which does not modify the access time (cpio has > > a flag for this); > > Or > > set check_mbox_size > > which will tell mutt to check mailbox file sizes instead of access > times. > Both seem rather bad ways to work around something which one could do directly by simply looking in the mailboxes to see if there's new mail. I mean the 'N' flag means "this mail is new/unread" so doesn't mutt use it to see if there is new mail in the mailbox?
I use rsync for backups and its advantages over cpio are such that I'm not going to change to cpio just to overcome this issue. I may try check_mbox_size but I seem to remember that it has some associated downsides as well. Thanks anyway! -- Chris Green
