-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >From: Khusro Jaleel <kernelj...@kerneljack.com>
>Replying to myself here. I believe I have found the cause of the problem AND >fixed it. We shall see. > >After finding out about the 'noatime' flag on the partition, googling 'mutt >noatime' immediately gave >results that were much more relevant to my problem. For example, from the Mutt >wiki: > >http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttFaq/Folder > >Do a search on that page for 'noatime' and you'll find the solution right >there! I had to rebuild mutt >with --enable-buffy-size so that it looks at file sizes instead of atimes. It >says it might give suboptimal >results, so we'll see how well it goes. > >At the moment it seems to be working quite well; those erroneous messages >about new mail are completely gone. > >Many thanks for your help on this, Steve. I've learned how to install CentOS >SRPMS, modify the .spec file >and rebuild it as a result :-) So I'm happy. Good detective work. Glad to have helped. Steve -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAko08+oACgkQX7YJI4BuyDTqTACfTzgw74nKzNHvL70WBCvImh9w X8kAnirI3ATlMgssvqWY+we6Uur06evk =uI0f -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
