I have been using mutt 1.4.2.1i for quite some time on my Solaris 10 system with the Gnome desktop manager. Gnome has an inbox monitor program that was working perfectly with mutt 1.4. It would indicate new mail, and when I double-clicked on the monitor icon, it would launch mutt in a pop-up xterm window and immediately stop indicating new mail. I would read and process my mail and exit mutt without any problems.
I just switched to mutt 1.5.20 which is working fine, except that I now have a strange new problem with the Gnome mail monitor. When it indicates new mail I double-click on the icon and it launches the new version of mutt just fine and stops indicating new mail. However, if I do anything that changes the inbox file, such as deleting a message, then the Gnome mail monitor sees this change and begins indicating that there is new mail, when in fact, there is none. This happens whether mutt is still running or has been exited. I can understand that the monitor is seeing an update on the inbox file timestamp due to the content changing, but my question is why didn't this ever happen with mutt version 1.4.2.1i? What was the old version doing that the new one is not? I'm using pretty much the same config file settings. Thanks for any insights. Regards, -- Jeffery Small
