Kevin J. McCarthy [200716 18:18]:
> If the access time is earlier than the modification time, it notifies for
> new mail.
Wow, what a bad algorithm. I mean, this was probably perfect 20 years ago,
but in times of desktop search engines, cloud backup services, etc.
something more advanced is
Kevin J. McCarthy [200715 08:28]:
> Have you checked the access time vs modification time of those mailboxes?
> Capture them before and after procmail, and then launching Mutt. See if
> this gives any clues.
Can you describe the algorithm how to determine if a mbox file has new
mails? Is this
Kevin J. McCarthy [200714 21:46]:
> Mike's reported bug was triggered by relative path mailboxes. Instead of:
> set folder = "~/Mail"
> mailboxes =a =b =c
> he had:
> set folder = "~/Mail"
> mailboxes a b c
> where a, b, and c were then resolved relative to the mutt starting
> directory,
Kevin J. McCarthy [200708 08:59]:
> > Perhaps some combination of settings is causing this. Would you mind
> > forwarding your configuration to me, so I can try to reproduce with
> > that?
>
> Thanks to Mike's help paring down his configuration to a minimal reproduce,
> I was able to find the
Sebastian Stein [200106 20:57]:
> > If possible it would helpful to test against a vanilla 1.10.1 (or newer)
> > tarball, to discount external patch bugs.
>
> Ok, I will try that and report back.
I've been using 1.13.2 compiled from official source since a few days and
haven'
Felix Finch [200107 08:03]:
> On 20200106, Sebastian Stein wrote:
> > Kevin J. McCarthy [200106 20:25]:
> > > How are you observing the "folders with new mail" count?
>
> Might I suggest you actually count how many files in those new Maildir/new
>
Kevin J. McCarthy [200106 20:25]:
> This would be the first report I've heard of this. What mailbox format is
> procmail delivering to?
I'm using maildir format, so based on some patterns I move mails to
different files below ~/Mail.
My procmailrc:
PMDIR=$HOME/.procmail
LOGFILE=$PMDIR/maillog
Hi,
I'm using the typical
POP3 -> fetchmail -> procmail -> mutt
chain on Kubuntu 19.10 with mutt 1.10.1.
In the past weeks (probably after upgrading to Kubuntu 19.10) I noticed that
mutt forgets about folders containing new mails as soon as I change one
folder.
For example, while mutt is
