On Tuesday 25.08.15 09:43, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2015-08-25 17:35 +0200, Joe wrote: > > > %N should mean: "show N flag for mailboxes containing "New" mail messages" > > > all mailboxes are in mbox format (at now) not in maildir format. > > I have many mailboxes, filled using fetchmail/procmail. > > With mbox, AFAIK mutt detects newness simply by comparing mtime with > atime of the file. If they're the same, it is new. > > Are you possibly mounting the filesystem with the noatime option?
In /etc/mtab I have the following set up for filesystem of root partition: --- /dev/sda5 / ext4 rw,commit=0 0 0 --- So, no "noatime" option...
