On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 12:24:03PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 17:15 02 Mar 2002, christophe barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Is there a way to use mutt on a noatime partitions ? > | It seems there is no option to avoid the use of the access time. > | How does other laptop user ? > | I recently added the noatime option to my root partition to extend my > | battery lifetime but mutt is not really usable this way. > > Well, the core issue is now you are being notified of new email. > It may be necessary to change your setup or habits. > > For myself, I don't keep mutt up all the time - I open it to read > email and quit when done. So I'm not using mutt's "new mail" monitor. > > Also, I'm not using the shell's $MAIL monitor (which depends on atime, > pronouncing new email with atime($MAIL) < mtime($MAIL)). > > Instead, I have my procmail recipe write a line to a log file when > interesting email arrives (i.e. only when one of a few recipes fires). > And I have a small window which tails that logfile. If I were in text mode I > could just tail that log in the background. > > In this way I am not dependent on atime. It may be you can adapt these > notions to your needs.
Thank you for you answer, happy to not be alone ;-). For my main inbox I have my gkrellm Mailwatch Plugin that keep track of new mail without atime. My problem is with mailing lists. As I understand it (but I haven't tried it, if I quit mutt after reading and relaunch each later (which is not a big overhead) mutt will reports new mails in mailing-list boxes even if I have already read all mails. I was thinking about an mutt option to detect new mails without depending on atime (something like keeping an internal atime and checking mbox content when mtime > internal atime). Christophe > > Cheers, > -- > Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ > > I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. > --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 -- Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E Cats seem go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. --Joseph Wood Krutch
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