On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 02:21:13PM -0600, David DeSimone wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Mutt does notify me when I run it (in the new=x, folders with new
> > mail). The problem is that when I change to that folder and leave
> > without having read all the new mail, mutt will tell me that I have no
> > folders with new mail.
>
> I think this is a limitation of mbox folders. The only 'easy' way to
> determine if there is new mail, is to check the access time, and reading
> the folder causes that time to be changed.
It may not be the case on all UNIXes. As I posted before, I have used
procmail and mbox folders on SGI/IRIX and mailboxes with new mail were
being detected correctly. I moved to a different server with SunOS (same
.muttrc, same .procmailrc) and new mail detection stopped working. I can do
touch -m on mailboxes before I open mutt but that's the only time new mail
detection works :-(
Regards,
Petr
