On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 07:05:47PM -0400, Chris Gray wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 04:13:23PM -0400, t.bedlam wrote: > > On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 12:23:16PM -0600, Alberto Brealey was only > > escaped alone to tell thee: > > > > > thing is wmmail apparently changes something in the various mailboxes it > > > checks, tricking mutt into thinking they don't have any new mail, even > > > when they do. i want to know if someone has a solution for this problem, > > > > mutt uses the file timestamps to test for newness; biff-like new mail > > checkers that do not reset time stamps confuse mutt (see manual.txt). > > Perhaps wmmail has an option you could set? > > I hacked on wmmail for a while to see if I could fix this. No luck. It > does set the timestamp back, but that doesn't seem to help mutt. Maybe > mutt checks something else, but I didn't have the patience to find out > what from its source.
its some sort of race condition, every so often if i go to switch mailboxes mutt notices new mail in $MAIL before wmmail does. its very rare though... i have another related problem with mutt and the mailboxes feature. i have /home NFS mounted (knfs kernel 2.2.15) but mutt seems to get confused: c to change mailboxes to say =in-debian-user read and delete everything c to change to next mailbox say =in-debian-powerpc read and delete everything c to change mailboxes, mutt says new mail in =in-debian-user so changes there, but the mailbox is empty, no new mail was delivered here in reality. the next c to change mailboxes causes mutt to go back to =in-debian-powerpc which also has no new mail. mutt will continue this loop forever. i have verified that lockd is up and working, i can establish file locks with a test program i found on the debian BTS. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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