On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 01:45:10AM +0200, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
#
# This issue has come up before, and I have some vague memories about a
# patch that would set the file access time to 1 second before the file
# modification time when an mbox folder was exited, if it contained new
# mails. But I'm not sure if that's just me imagining things, or not.
For what it's worth, (ie, I'm not sure if this would solve his problem)
I build mutt with the "--enable-buffy-size" option. This has mutt check
the file size of the folder instead of the access time of the folder.
This provides me with a reliable indication of when the folder has
new mail.
YMMV.
-greg
