On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:32:26PM +0200, Kirill Miazine wrote: >> Also oddly, this does not happen on the desktop, so it may well be >> something to do with something outside of mutt but I have no idea >> where to look, since I don't know how and where mutt stores info about >> seen/unseen mail in the mailboxes. >> >> Any pointers would be great. > > Is /var mounted noatime? Mutt determines the flags my comparing the > timestamps of last access and modification. If your /var is mounted > noatime, the access time won't be saved and thus Mutt will think that > you've got new mail in that mailbox.
Do you have laptop-mode turned on on your laptop? Laptop-mode can be configured to remount your drives with noatime when you go on battery. This may explain why you have problems with your laptop but not your desktop. —Justin