[Lvlug] Re: mutt Q

Faber J. Fedor faber at linuxnj.com
Thu Aug 7 14:50:15 EDT 2008


I think I found the problem!  I rebooted a few weeks ago and that
started Google Desktop and it's indexer! So whenever the files were
coming in, they were being indexed and that set the [am]times wrong!

Let's prove it by sending this message and seeing if mutt sees it!


On 07/08/08 13:46 -0400, Faber J. Fedor wrote:
> Lately (in the past few weeks), mutt has stopped recognizing new emails
> in my email folders, but I didn't change anything.
> 
> I have fetchmail, well, fetching my emails, passing it off to procamil
> which then puts the emails into /var/spool/mail/faber or in a folder in
> ~/Mail/.  In my .muttrc, I tell mutt to 'set folder = $HOME/Mail' and set
> several mailboxes.
> 
> As I said, this just stopped working and I can't figure out why.
> 
> I recently did a test where the only setting in ~/.muttrc was 'mailboxes
> /home/faber/Mail/mutt-test' and had procmail deliver any email with
> 'mutt-test' in the subject to the file ~/Mail/mutt-test.
> 
> The emails are delivered. The timestamps (using ls -l --time=[ac]time)
> look right. Everything is as it should be, except mutt isn't recognizing
> new emails.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> -- 
>  
> Regards,
>  
> Faber Fedor
> President
> Linux New Jersey, Inc.
> 908-320-0357
> 800-706-0701
> 
> http://www.linuxnj.com
> 
> 
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Regards,
 
Faber Fedor
President
Linux New Jersey, Inc.
908-320-0357
800-706-0701

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