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

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