On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 01:00:04AM +0200, Joe wrote: > 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): > --- > 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: - > --- > > > 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. > --- > > > 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: > --- > set folder_format = "%4C %t %-40f %30.30d %-10.10N" > set sort_browser = reverse-date > --- > > > 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:
What is the character width of your terminal? By my count the "N" field starts at about the 84th character. Also, why specify a 10 char wide field for a 1 char piece of data? Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)
