David Wright wrote: > On Mon 29 Feb 2016 at 02:09:41 (-1000), Joel Roth wrote: > > Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > Disclaimer : I do not use mutt nor any SSD yet. > > > > > > Joel Roth a écrit : > > > > > > > > I have debian installed on a single SSD partition, > > > > with ordinary desktop use. > > > > > > > > When I set the strictatime option, mutt accurately shows new > > > > mails arriving. (I'm using mbox format.) > > > > > > Doesn't mutt work with relatime, which is the current kernel default ? > > > The mount(8) man page states that it should. > > > > With mbox and relatime, I get only one notification of new mail > > in a folder. If I quit mutt without reading and start > > again, the indication now longer shows up. > > > > I have filtering in to lots of folders, and have missed > > seeing mail that way. > > That's because you haven't unset mail_check_recent and mark_old in muttrc.
Thanks for this suggestion. Just FYI, running mutt on a FS set for relatime, mark_old is the default (yes) but older unread messages only show up as N. The O designation never appears. The behavior does not change with mail_check_recent set or unset. mount -o remount,strictatime / Fixes it. Regards, Joel > Cheers, > David. > -- Joel Roth
