On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:47:24PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> Can anyone help me with setting up my 'set folder_format' setting so
> that it tags folders that have new mail with an 'N". I'm looking for
> something similar to this:
> http://www.linuxbrit.co.uk/mutt/mutt_directory.png. The exact setup
> the site). I also added a 'mailboxes' entry to my .muttrc file. Here's
>
> set folder_format="%F %-8.8u %-8.8g %d %8s %N %f"
> or this one
> set folder_format="%N %8s bytes - %d %f"
>
Do you have any biff-like software running?
Mutt documentation says:
>> 3.11 Defining mailboxes which receive mail
...
>> Note: new mail is detected by comparing the last modification time to the last
>> access time. Utilities like biff or frm or any other program which accesses
>> the mailbox might cause Mutt to never detect new mail for that mailbox if they
>> do not properly reset the access time. Backup tools are another common reason
>> for updated access times.
try to get a console-login without such tools,
or try to compare access and modification times with
ls -lc mail_folder_file (status modification time)
ls -lu mail_folder_file (access time)
ls -l mail_folder_file (modification time)
when thy contain either new mail or not.
You may additionally always use --full-times for testing with `ls`.
hope that helps
Olaf
