Is there any way I can force mutt to scan all files in 'mailboxes' for new mail?
In general during the day everything works fine, new mail is detected in the normal way by seeing if the access time is before the modified time. However when I come to read mail in the morning the incoming E-Mail has been accessed by my backup system and the above mechanism doesn't work. I know one way to solve the problem would be to make the backup system a bit cleverer but that's rather difficult at the moment. If I look in the individual mbox files the new mail *is* actually marked as N[ew] by the mail delivery program. So, is there a way to get mutt to scan the mbox files in my mailboxes list and flag up which ones have new mail? ... and is the only reason for not doing this by default that it would be slow? -- Chris Green
