oops, I didn't ask what type of mailbox you were using. I don't know whether
the issues are different with MH/Maildir-style mailboxes. I'm pretty sure
the "buffy-size" option has no effect when using directory-style mailboxes.
If your mailboxes are on an ext2 system that's mounted just defaults,rw,
atime shouldn't be a problem. You might try moving your mail to mbox format
just to see if that cures the problem.
I don't know about a script for changing mailbox formats, but tagging all
the messages and saving them to a new mailbox after you've changed the
default mbox format has worked for me...
----- Original Message -----
From: Pete Toscano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, 06 July, 1999 14:43
Subject: Re: Mutt detects new mail in old mailbox
On Tue, 06 Jul 1999, Pete Toscano wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jul 1999, Brendan Cully wrote:
>
> > You probably have your mail on a filesystem that doesn't update the
atime of
> > your mailboxes. If you are using linux/ext2, keep your mail on a
filesystem
> > that is not mounted "noatime". You may also want to try recompiling mutt
> > with the "buffy" [?] option, which I think tries to see whether the
mailbox
> > size has changed since last query instead of using access times.
>
> well, i'll try the recompilation.
fyi, recompilation didn't help.
pete
> i'm a little surprised that mutt doesn't work with straight ext2
> partitions "right out of the box." is there a special way i'm
> to mount the ext2 partition that the mail is on? it's just mounted plain
> rw right now.
>
> thanks,
> pete
>
> >
> > -Brendan
> >
> > PS sorry I'm using outlook express - I'm at work. OTOH, it does have
nice
> > IMAP support ;)
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Pete Toscano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Wouter Hanegraaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, 06 July, 1999 10:54
> > Subject: Re: Mutt detects new mail in old mailbox
> >
> > this happens all the time for me with just about all my mailboxes.
> > it's very frustrating and about to cause me to abandon mutt (0.95.6i).
> > can anyone shed some light on how to fix this problem?
> >
> > thanks,
> > pete
> >
> > On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
> >
> > > When I browse through my mailboxes with c<Space>.., one of the boxes
> > > that is supposed to have new mail doen't have new mail at all.
> > > This happens very often. When I am in that folder, mutt even sometimes
> > > explicitely tells me there's new mail in that box.
> > > For all I know, this happens only with one very small mailbox.
> > >
> > > Anyone encountered this too?
> > >
> > > I'm using Mutt 0.95.3i (1999-02-12)
> > >
> > > Wouter...
> > >
> >
> >
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