On Wednesday 26.08.15 08:03, Joe wrote:
> 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...
I tried to send a message myself (sender and recipient are the same address).
My procmail config deliver this type of messages in a mailbox called
"test-mail" (~/Mail/test-mail), and it is mbox format.
Now if I use stat command before opening that mailbox with mutt or any other
client I can see (my shell returns that output in Italian instead of English):
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File: "Mail/mail.tests"
Dim.: 41075 Blocchi: 88 Blocco di IO: 4096 file regolare
Device: 805h/2053d Inode: 2434807 Coll.: 1
Accesso: (0600/-rw-------) Uid: ( 1000/ joe) Gid: ( 16/ dialout)
Accesso : 2015-08-26 17:16:35.000000000 +0200
Modifica : 2015-08-26 23:48:13.819996412 +0200
Cambio : 2015-08-26 23:48:13.819996412 +0200
Creazione: -
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So we have:
mtime (Aug 26 17:16) > atime (Aug 26 23:48)
As explained by "Ian Zimmerman" and by man pages of mbox(5):
---
If the modification-time (usually determined via stat(2)) of a nonempty mbox
file is greater than the access-time the file has new mail.
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This should mean our "mail.test" mailbox contains new messages and I would
expect Mutt shows "N" flag when I'm in "browser menu".
In my "~/.muttrc" I've set:
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set folder_format = "%4C %t %-40f %30.30d %-10.10N"
set sort_browser = reverse-date
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So I expected an "N" flag at the end of "mail.test" line in browser menu.
But I can just view the following line when I open Mutt browser menu:
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1 mail.tests Aug 26 23:48
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So... There isn't any "N" flag following last modification date/time
info (Aug 26 23:48)! :(
If I don't open that mailbox, quit Mutt and recall stat command I still see
the same report as above... as expected:
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$ stat Mail/mail.tests
File: "Mail/mail.tests"
Dim.: 41075 Blocchi: 88 Blocco di IO: 4096 file regolare
Device: 805h/2053d Inode: 2434807 Coll.: 1
Accesso: (0600/-rw-------) Uid: ( 1000/ joe) Gid: ( 16/ dialout)
Accesso : 2015-08-26 17:16:35.000000000 +0200
Modifica : 2015-08-26 23:48:13.819996412 +0200
Cambio : 2015-08-26 23:48:13.819996412 +0200
Creazione: -
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Even though I've searched the net, I haven't found a solution yet.
I suspected the problem was in "folder_format" variable, but also with
default value ("%2C %t %N %F %2l %-8.8u %-8.8g %8s %d %f") "N" flag
doesn't appear anyway...
Hope these info could be useful. If you have any hints would be greatly
appreciated! :)
Thanks again, see you!
