Anthony --
...and then Anthony Liu said...
% On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 05:40:43PM -0400, David T-G wrote:
%
% > % but I can't see the "N" indicator in the folder index even though some
% > % of the mailboxes has new mail (it is always blank). Why?
% >
% > If your folder_format is correct, then you probably have the common
% > problem of some other utility (biff, your shell, or anything else that
...
%
% Yes, I did a little test: I switched off my biff (which is WMMail for
Yep...
% WindowMaker). Then I wait for new mail (tail -f /var/log/maillog).
Hmmm... As long as you're watching the sendmail program log rather than
your actual mailbox, you should be fine.
% When new mails came, I re-open mutt and folder index show still didnt
% show the N indicator. BTW, in the pager index, it does shows up the
% message "new mail in this folder".
Yep; that makes sense. When mutt has the folder open, it compares its
working copy with the real thing.
%
% Now suddenly I am thinking this may have something to do with the
% mount option I use. In this partition where the mailboxes are, I
% have the "noatime" option in fstab. I wonder...
Aha! Yes, that would almost certainly do it. Try remounting and see if
things start working all of a sudden (perhaps without WMMail checking,
though).
:-D
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