Graham --
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% Hi,
%
% I'm having a problem with the mailboxes command, I have defined a couple
% of mailboxes that I want to be checked for new mail but I it doesn't seem
Well, what do you mean by "it doesn't work"? Do you mean that mutt isn't
telling you when you have new mail, or that mutt doesn't realize that
these are mailboxes?
% to work. I have included my muttrc file below. I am using procmail
% to soft my mail into the different folders. Anyone got any ideas?
For starters, fire up mutt and then type
c<tab><tab>
(that is, press 'c' to go to the change menu, press the <tab> key to get
a list of all files in $folder, and press <tab> again to limit your list
to only defined mailboxes). Do you get the list you expect (eg bugtraq
debian-security root-mail)?
I don't see why you wouldn't get that list; you specify each mailbox with
a full filesystem path and no fancy `echo ...` calls, so that's pretty
bulletproof. But let us know.
If you *do* get your list, then you should check for anything that
might be looking at those mailboxes -- biff, shell mail notification,
newmail, backup software, some tar or cpio command, or the like -- and
updating the access time (because it peeks at the file) without updating
the modification time (of course!), because THAT is how mutt discovers
"new" mail. mutt doesn't actually open the folders and check all of
the headers; it really just says "this file has been modified since
[presumably] you last looked at it, so it must have new mail in it"
and that's all.
:-D
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