Re: mutt keeps thinking there's new mail in /var/mail/user

2008-04-14 Thread Justin Mazzola Paluska
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:32:26PM +0200, Kirill Miazine wrote: Also oddly, this does not happen on the desktop, so it may well be something to do with something outside of mutt but I have no idea where to look, since I don't know how and where mutt stores info about seen/unseen mail in the

Re: mutt keeps thinking there's new mail in /var/mail/user

2008-04-14 Thread Marianne Promberger
On 04/14/08 13:10, Justin Mazzola Paluska wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:32:26PM +0200, Kirill Miazine wrote: Is /var mounted noatime? Do you have laptop-mode turned on on your laptop? Laptop-mode can be configured to remount your drives with noatime when you go on battery. This may

mutt keeps thinking there's new mail in /var/mail/user

2008-04-12 Thread Marianne Promberger
Hi, I'm using Mutt 1.5.15 on Xubuntu Gutsy, on two machines with what I thought was the same setup (same ~/.muttrc et al files). On the laptop, when I send mail to myself on localhost using the exim MTA that comes with Ubuntu, it goes nicely into /var/mail/username, which is an mbox mailbox. I

Re: mutt keeps thinking there's new mail in /var/mail/user

2008-04-12 Thread Kirill Miazine
Hello Marianne, * Marianne Promberger [2008-04-12 21:16]: [...] so when I hit q from the /var/mail/username index I get back to the mailbox browser, and that correctly does not show any N next to /var/mail/username mailbox. However, when I either go into a different mailbox and then back to