Mutt not seeing new mail at all

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 02:47:01PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
> I'm running mutt 1.5.18 in ubuntu 8.10 and it's not seeing new mail at
> all. That is the status line is not reporting new mail when it arrives
> and 'c' doesn't move me to folders with new mail in them.
> 
> I've never had this problem before with mutt on a variety of platforms
> (slackware, fedora, bsd, solaris) and I can't see anything obvious
> wrong.
> 
> Should mutt work correctly with mbox mailbox files on Ubuntu or has
> Ubuntu done something wierd that stops it working?

This can be explained if you store your folders in mbox format on a
filesystem what's mounted with 'noatime'.

You can check by typing 'mount' in a terminal, or by looking in
/etc/fstab.

To get mutt to notice new mail, you'll either have to switch to maildir
format, or change the mount options to 'relatime' instead of 'noatime'.

HTH,
Marius Gedminas
-- 
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