On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 09:57:05PM -0800, Phil Staub wrote:
>
> My major questions relate to getting mutt to properly detect the fact
> that mail has been newly deposited into mh folders that I have
> designated in my .muttrc as mailboxes. I've been getting new mail
> reported in folders that are completely empty, as well as no report
> when new mail *is* in the folders.
>
> For the record, I am using rcvstore to insert the mail into the
> mailboxes, and I do not have either biff or xbiff running to watch for new
> mail.
Yes, I've noticed that mutt behaves in a rather unreliable fashion when it
comes to this, too. I don't use mh's "rcvstore" in procmail, just the
simple "foldername/.", which works just fine at adding mail to a folder.
Rather than being advised of new mail in mutt, I see messages saying
"Mailbox was externally modified. Flags may be wrong."
I also see folders marked as having new mail, even after I've just
finished reading them and I *know* there's no new mail in them.
I'd really like to know how to get new mail notification to work properly,
too. Other than this, I think mutt is a fantastic mail client.
> I've also read most of the man pages on procmail, and scanned through
> the mutt manual. I'm aware of the warning in the procmail pages about
> file locking being unreliable for MH mailboxes.
>
> Finally, I only recently subscribed to the mailing list, and yet
> already I've seen other references to problems with new mail
> detection, even for those not using mh mailboxes. Perhaps 1.1.7 will
> resolve this? Haven't had time to download it yet, but it might be
> worth a try.
Same here. I do intend to give it a try as soon as I have the time to set
it up. <crossing fingers> :-)
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