On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 05:16:46PM +0100, Rocco Rutte wrote: > Hi, > > * Chris G wrote: >> I have a mailboxes line as follows:- > >> mailboxes ~/Mail/In/inbox `echo ~/Mail/Li/*` `echo ~/Mail/In/*` > >> Obviously the ~/Mail/In/inbox will appear twice because it's in `echo >> ~/Mail/In/*` as well. Will this cause any problems (there are entries >> which come after inbox in `echo ~/Mail/In/*`)? > > No, mutt filters out duplicates (start it with 'mutt -y' and you see what > mailboxes it kwows). > >> I'm asking because it *seems* as if it's making mutt fail to see new >> mail in the mailboxes after inbox and I'm trying to work out why. > > Then something else must be wrong because between the first "inbox" and the > second one there're folders from ~/Mail/Li/*. Or do you mean the first > "inbox"? > No, I *thought* I got mail into ~/Mail/In/bcs that mutt didn't see as new mail. I have been doing quite a few changes recently though so I'm going to suspend judgement until I see another case or two of this happening.
> What does "seems" mean? Does it report new mail or not? > It didn't report one mail message as new but marked the mailbox as having new mail when I navigated to it. > If not, answering these may help finding the cause: Are you using mbox? Can > you send the output of 'stat ...' for a mailbox which has new mail mutt > fails to detect (if you have that command)? What mutt version are you > using? Do you have BUFFY_SIZE built in or not (mutt -v | grep BUFFY_SIZE)? > I'm using all maildir now. As I said I'll suspend judgement until I see further cases of the same problem. -- Chris Green
