On Thu, August 23, 2012 08:53, Joerg Dorchain wrote: > I have a setup where my MTA delivers mail to an mbox file, which > then is in turn exported via nfs read only to the client where > mutt is running. Main purpose of this construction is viewing > certain attachments. > > While all this works fine the first time mutt is started, after a > while there is the situation that new mail arrives, however the > mutt instance with the read only filesystem does not notice. > > Would it be possible to make mutt check for changes to the > mailbox, even when this is located on a read-only filesystem?
Try the check_mbox_size option. regards, Christian
