Anyone here use mutt? (was: Mutt not showing IMAP mailbox counts)

David Taylor davidt at yadt.co.uk
Fri Nov 16 22:55:06 UTC 2007


On Mon, Oct 29, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 06:11:39PM -0700, Jack Bowling wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:17:12AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> > > Can anyone using mutt (and imaps) confirm this behavior below?
> > > 
> > >     $ mutt -y
> > > 
> > > to show mailboxes results in all zero counts displayed.
> > >
> > 
> > Bill, you may want to check the archives. There was a thread a month
> > or so back about Ubuntu's decision to mount filesystems with the
> > "noatime" option affecting some apps such as Mutt which rely on
> > updates to file modification times to display new mail.
> 
> noatime it access time, not modification time.  Do you think that
> would be related?
> 
> I'm also accessing the mailboxes via IMAP, so it's not looking at any
> file access times.

I too am seeing this problem when using mutt (1.5.17) with IMAP.
However, I'm using FreeBSD.

If anyone knows of a solution to this problem, I would be extremely
greatful to hear of it... 

-- 
David Taylor




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