I run mutt on my workstation with my mail directory nfs mounted. Mail get
sorted into various folders in the mail dir automatically (via exim), I
have these in my muttrc as mailboxes.
Both machines are Debian/Linux boxes. The server is debian stable, running
kernel 2.2.17 using the kernel nfs server. The client is debian unstable
running kernel 2.4.0-test10 and mutt 1.2.5i.
The problem seems to be with atimes getting set upon mutt startup. When
first starting mutt the status line will report new mail in several of my
mailboxes (eg. Inc:2), but as soon as I refresh the display the Inc:
disappears. The mail is still in the mailboxes, and marked as new in them,
but the status line no longer reports this.
Once mutt is running this works as it should (the Inc: stays until the
mailbox is checked). It only has this problem at startup.
After doing a bit of testing, it seems like mutt is setting the atime of
the mailboxes with new mail upon startup. Actually I think mutt is probably
behaving correctly (by saving and resetting the atime), but the nfs server
isn't.
Has anyone else run into this problem? Does the newly patched knfs server
in linux-2.2.18preX work any better, how about the knfsv3 server in 2.2.18?
Any other solutions besides ditching nfs and switching to a imap,
fetchmail, etc?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Oh... I did try recompiling with the --enable-nfs-fix. It made no
difference.
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