[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 25 Apr
2000:
> when I receive new mail into my spool boxes (via procmail) and it stays
> there for a while without me starting mutt or looking into the folder,
> the status flags disappear. If I chdir to one of my spools and chdir
> somewhere else without looking at the mails, mutt treats it as read mail
> and tries to move it to my destination folder according to the
> mbox-hooks I've set up.
>
> What's going on here?
This is a FAQ, although I'm not sure if it's answered in the FAQ list...
(It should be, anyone up to adding an entry if it's not there already?)
Presumably you're using mbox folders, as this is very typical behaviour
to them. With mbox folders, the "new" flag as shown in the folder
browser depends on the modified time for a file being newer than the
access time -- ie. the folder has been modified after it has last been
read.
*ANY* read access to such folders will change the last-read time, and
make Mutt no longer mark the folder as new. So, typically this problem
is caused by some other program than Mutt reading the folder file, eg.
a new-mail notified program (eg. biff), a shell's new mail notifier,
backup software being run, etc. etc.
Some new mail notifiers actually take care to reset the last-read time
back to what it was after checking the contents for new mail, but not
all of them do.
Hope this helps,
Mikko
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