On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 04:11:23PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > I have: > > > > MAILPATH="/home/me/.maildir/new?You have new mail." > > MAILCHECK=60 > > > > Bash 3.2 was correctly telling me about new mail arriving. However, > > after I updated to Bash 4.0, I constantly get a "You have new mail." > > message every minute even though I actually don't have new mail. Has > > the mail notification feature changed in Bash 4.0? I can't see anything > > relevant in the man page or NEWS file. > > There was a small change made to the mail file initialization code, to > keep from dropping the first "new mail" notification. (In April, 2007, > though, so you'd figure one of the testers would have caught a problem > before now.) > > I don't use a maildir-aware mail program, but you can debug this by > setting a breakpoint in mailcheck.c:check_mail(). >
I recently faced with the same problem, when package manager update my bash from 3.x to 4.x. I compared mailcheck.c from 3.2 and 4.0, and see only logic difference in add_mail_file. When it function handle new file, it not read it's date information as it was in 3.x, but set it to zero, so I made such changes: --- mailcheck-vanilla.c 2009-10-25 22:44:33.000000000 +0300 +++ mailcheck.c 2009-10-25 22:45:33.000000000 +0300 @@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ add_mail_file (file, msg) mailfiles[i] = alloc_mail_file (filename, msg); init_mail_file (i); + update_mail_file (i); return i; } and at now I not see any problems, comments? -- /Evgeniy
