On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:14:49AM -0500, David T-G wrote: > % On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 11:51:38PM +0100, Maarten den Braber wrote: > % > > % > Do you have some 'buffy' kind of program that checks ~/Mailbox? > % > % To the best of my knowledge, no. Though I'm not sure how that would affect > % mutt's ability to keep track of new messages in that box...? > > Because, as has been discussed on the list before, mutt doesn't actually > know that there are new messages in the box; it simply knows that the > modification timestamp (last write) is later than the access time stamp > (last read) and, according to the definition that that fits, says there > is new mail. If biff or buffy were to update the access timestamp, > though, then it wouldn't fit the "new mail" qualification any more.
Thanks Maarten and David, this put me on the right track. It wasn't a biff, buffy kind of thing, and my shell wasn't checking, but I had two other client type apps that -did- check the mailbox periodically. So, I disabled their checking and, voila, mutt is happy. This does bring up in my mind a curious conundrum. The whole concept of apps checking to see if the mailspool has new mail in it can/should be done in such a way so that multiple apps can do it and not squash each others data. Not that much can be done about it at this point, it seems so many apps use this current model. :/ - Myrddin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ICQ: 22404528 Why Vegan? http://www.firstmagic.com/vegan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
